Bubblegum Glass Modern Flower Vase

A pink vase is one where colour is the primary design decision rather than a finish applied to a shape that would work anyway. The Bubblegum is separated by saturation and by method: this is a full-strength pink carried in the glass itself, not a tinted wash, so it stays pink under lamplight instead of drifting grey. The shape underneath the colour is deliberately plain. Two heights share one base.

They can, though the colour makes the decision for you. Dried material is muted, mostly straw and brown, and against a full-strength pink it either reads as a deliberate contrast or as something that died in a nice vessel. The tall version manages it because the stems clear the coloured wall. In the short one the two fight. Height decides this, not the flowers.

More than you would guess, and you cannot see any of it. That is the real answer here, because a saturated wall hides the water line completely, so judging by eye is not available and people habitually underfill. Lift it instead. A short one at working level has noticeable weight, and the tall one considerably more. Go by heft rather than by looking.

Because glass takes colour into the body of the material and ceramic mostly takes it onto the outside. A glaze is a layer over a clay that is some other colour underneath, so a chip shows white; here a chip shows pink, because there is no underneath. That distinction matters more on a strong colour than a pale one. Depth of colour requires depth of material.

Interior marks barely show, which sounds convenient and is the trap. What does show on this piece is the outside, since fingerprints and dust read clearly against a saturated surface in a way they never do on clear glass. Wipe the exterior more often than you would expect to and the interior on the usual schedule. The outside is what people notice here.

In a room that has otherwise been agreed on. This works as the single unrestrained thing in a restrained scheme, which means it needs to be the only one of its kind in view, with everything around it doing considerably less. Give it a neutral wall and a good deal of distance. Two loud objects cancel out.

Start with the Bubblegum if you want the vase to be the event, and the Bulb Forcer if you want the plant to be. They are opposite propositions in the same catalogue: one is a colour with a vessel attached, the other is a clear functional object that disappears around a bulb. Most people end up owning both eventually. Neither replaces the other.

In 2016, and the colour came before the form rather than after it. The studio settled the pink first, then drew the plainest shape that would carry it, on the reasoning that a colour this committed cannot also carry surface detail without becoming exhausting. Two heights followed from wanting the option of a pair. Nothing has been softened since.