Lot Glass Modern Clear Flower Vase

A lot is a quantity of things kept together, and that is precisely what this is: several tubes cast into one glass body, bought and used as a single unit. You are not acquiring a vase so much as an arrangement of them that somebody has already spaced for you. The word describes the count rather than the silhouette. It is a group with one base.

Very well, and better than a tall vessel does. A short garden stem in a single vase looks stranded, whereas the same stem in a row of tubes borrows presence from the ones beside it. Six inches is plenty of length here. Trim them all to roughly one length so the whole group looks deliberate rather than accidental. Sweet peas and cornflowers were what convinced us.

Depends which size, and they invert each other. The larger covers 4.5 inches by 6.75 and stands 4.5 tall, so it occupies real table and stays low across it. The smaller takes only 2 inches by 4 of surface but rises to 7.75. One is a footprint and the other is a column. Neither wants a runner underneath.

Yes, and being one object rather than five is most of the reason. Five separate bud vases on a table are five chances to catch a sleeve, while this is a single mass with a broad base and a low centre of gravity in the larger size. The walls are heavier than the tubes suggest from above. Fewer objects means fewer accidents.

Hand wash only, and the reason is drainage rather than heat. Water sits between tubes that are close together and a machine cannot get in to displace it, so pieces come out with standing water in the gaps and dry with rings. Fill the row from a tap, tip it fully, then stand it on a folded towel at an angle. It will drain in an hour.

It does, and rather better than most vases manage empty. A row of open tubes is a repeating pattern, so the object reads as geometry when nothing is in it and as flowers when something is. Filling half the openings and leaving the rest bare is a legitimate way to use it year-round. Empty, it looks finished rather than waiting.

Openings, mainly. The Lot presents a row of separate tubes, so every stem is held apart from its neighbour at a fixed distance and what you get is a straight sequence. The Nebula is one continuous swirled body with a single mouth, so stems fall together and lean. One organises for you and the other lets things settle. Different intentions, similar footprint.

It began as a single tube on a ledge and became a row when we noticed people buying three at a time and setting them out in a line themselves. The remaining question was pitch. We tested spacing against tulips, because a tulip is the widest thing anybody was likely to put in one, and stopped where the leaves cleared. That measurement has not moved since 2010.