Object
04
Type
Vessel
Year
2026
Edition
Series IV — 90 pieces
A vessel is the oldest designed object there is. Before chairs, before lamps, someone shaped clay around nothing and made a place to keep water. We wanted to return to that gesture — and make the nothing visible.
Glass lets you see the emptiness; travertine gives it a floor; bronze closes it with a sound you'll learn to recognise. Three materials, three temperatures, one quiet object.
The brief: Emptiness, designed carefully, is a presence.
Each body is blown in two gathers; the glassblower's breath sets the final curve.
Stage 01 — Breath
DWG 04
Foot & lid
Travertine
Collar & knob
Cast bronze
Liner
Stoneware
Take it apart.
Keep scrolling. Every part comes out without tools — and every part can come back.
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Two breaths
Each body is blown in two gathers. The glassblower's breath sets the final curve — no mould.
Front elevation · 1:4
300 × 560 × 300mm
- Body
- Free-blown borosilicate
- Foot & lid
- Unfilled travertine
- Collar
- Lost-wax bronze
- Liner
- Glazed stoneware
- Capacity
- 1.6 L
- Each piece
- Signed & numbered
- Weight
- 3.4 kg
Emptiness, designed carefully, is a presence.
We designed VAEL empty. Every rendering, every prototype, every photograph — empty. If an object is only beautiful when it's full, it's a container. If it's beautiful empty, it's a presence.
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