Vases from Vitra
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Whether used to decorate a party with friends, enhance a dining
table or adorn a sideboard: flowers bring natural freshness to every
home. We have some inspirational tips on how to embellish your homewith colourful floral displays using the Vitra vase collection.

Vases Découpage 		

page 4Herringbone Vessels		

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Nuage			page 24
Nuage Céramique		2

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Vases Découpage
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2020

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Vases Découpage
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2020
The Vases Découpage each consist of a cast cylindrical vessel combined with a set of abstract slabs andbars made of clay, which can be attached to or placed inside the vase. All of the elements have a distinctly
handcrafted appearance and exist in a variety of colours – and together they create poetic compositions
that look different from every angle: whimsical, ironic, unconventional, lively.

One variety
With a bouquet consisting of just one variety of flower, the colour plays a major role. Colours that match thevase have a calming effect, while contrasting colours draw attention to the arrangement.

‚The arrangements form a fragile balance as contrasting colours and layers converge to yield a newharmony‘, says Ronan Bouroullec. Without flowers they also resemble sculptures.
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Florist’s bouquet
Take the vase along to the florist. They will put together a bouquet that complements the clay disc and stemor will create a spherical bouquet that brings out the red colour of the disc.

6Single flowers
Beautiful flowers like tulips, gloriosa, lilies, strelitzia, hydrangeas or amaryllis complement the striking appearance of the vases.

Green arrangement
Green can also be flamboyant and eye-catching, such as a combination of green hues that showcases thedifferent textures of leaves, twigs and grasses. The long tendrils of the asparagus plant are highly suitable
for an arrangement featuring just one plant.
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Dry flower arrangement
You can gather dried flowers, seed heads and grasses in your garden or from hedgerows in autumn andcombine the beige, brown and grey shades and textures to create a long-lasting bouquet.

Twigs
Whether they are knotty and dry or blossoming with the joys of spring, twigs provide an excellent contrast tothe discs, rods and bows. At Christmas you can combine a forked pine branch with the Vitra Girard Ornaments to create your own seasonal decoration.

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Top left: sculpture
Top right: single strelitzia with leaves
Bottom: summer with sprigs of jasmine and clematis

Top: spring with tulips, twigs, asparagus and miniature ferns
Bottom left: sculpture
Bottom right: winter with corkscrew willow and orchids1011

Top left: winter with lilies, nightshade and amaryllis
Top right: spring and summer with matthiola, gerbera, calendula and grasses
Bottom: winter with twigs and Vitra Girard Ornaments

Top: summer all year round with gloriosa
Bottom left: spring with clematis and buttercups
Bottom right: spring and summer with irises

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Herringbone Vessels
Raw-Edges, 2019
The Herringbone Vessels are created by repeatedly
immersing ceramic bowls and vases in a colouredglaze. This process yields a pattern with an intrinsic
logic, determined by the dipping angle as well as
the shape and weight of the piece. As the dyeing
process is performed entirely by hand, each bowl
and vase in the Herringbone Collection is a uniqueobject.

With heights of 24.5 and 31.5 cm, the Herringbone
Collection vases are highly versatile and allow agreat many different kinds of flower arrangements.
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One flower variety – hanging or standing tall,depending on the plant.

Loosely arranged meadow flowers
or a bouquet from the garden.

A bunch comprised of leaves, grasses and twigs
to create a collage of varying shades of green anddifferent textures.

An autumnal arrangement of seed heads andgrasses for a long-lasting dry flower arrangement.

Form bunches of twigs with contrasting textures in winter and decorate them festively
with Vitra Girard Ornaments.

Tip:
To hold a small number of flowers securely, you caninsert small twigs crosswise in the vase or bend somethick wire into a loose bunch and place it in the vase.

Simply tell your florist how high the vase is andlet them make a suitable bouquet for you.
16Flowers like calla, strelitzia or hydrangeas – assingle flowers or in small groups – have a subtle
and elegant effect.

A further option is to make a grid using transparent
adhesive tape.

17In addition to the conventional use of bowls and plates for fruit, biscuits,etc. they can be utilised together with floral foam or kenzans for floral
table decorations.

Twigs give your arrangements
volume and height.

A large flower, placed loosely ina bowl in an asymmetric arrangement.

Daffodils can be placed in a
kenzan to easily form a miniature
garden.

You can use a few leaves to cover
the foam or the kenzan.

Arrange the flowers in levels, with
A rich mixture of small, delicatethe largest at the bottom to giveflowers creates a carpet of blosyour arrangement a structured look. soms. Combine different structuresand shapes.

Tip:
You can give individual flowers additional support by bending twigs into the bowl.
Floral foam helps you arrange flowers in vessels. Place it on the surface of the water, it will slowly sinkdown and become saturated with water in approximately one minute. Top up the foam with water fromtime to time.
Alternatively, you can use a kenzan and insert twigs, leaves and flowers as desired. Take inspiration fromnature and create loose and light combinations. Fill the vessel with water up to the top edge of the kenzan.

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Top left: summer and autumn with different shades of green
Top right: autumn with beech leaves and rose hip
Bottom: spring with birch twigs, tulips, anemones, buttercups and poppies

Top: summer all year round with gloriosa
Bottom left: winter with twigs and Vitra Girard Ornaments, eucalyptus and bromeliads
Bottom right: summer with irises, clematis and a twig without leaves

2021Top left: winter with lilies, mimosa twigs and jasmine
Top right: summer greenery with ferns, leaves, grasses and asparagus tendrils
Bottom: winter with twigs and Vitra Girard Ornaments, amaryllis, eucalyptus, sea lavender and lysanthus

Top: autumn and winter with hydrangeas, sunflowers and miscanthus
Bottom left: spring with gentiana, anemones and twigs
Bottom right: spring and summer with matthiola, carnations, broom and green

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NuageRonan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2016
The Nuage vases produce an attractive interplay oflight and shadow with their undulating shape andanodised aluminium finish in various colours. Flowers
and grasses can be arranged in each cluster of eightindividual tubes, and thanks to their precise outer
contours, the vases can also be fitted together tocreate entire ‚cloud formations‘.
Remember that sometimes less is more: don’t fill all of
the tubes – 3 out of 8 of them is enough – and allow
your Nuage to stand out in its own right.
#nuageTip 1 - sorting

Tip 2 - repetition

If you use the entire set, you can sort yourflowers in the three different-sized vases.
One flower variety for each vase.

Fill the large Nuage with a combination offlowers, grasses and twigs. The middle Nuage is left empty. You repeat the combinationfrom the large Nuage in the small one; just on
a smaller scale.

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Top left: spring with calla, anemones, eucalyptus and grasses
Top right: spring with poppies
Bottom: spring or summer meadow flowers in Nuages

Top: autumn and winter with grasses
Bottom left: summer all year round with gloriosa
Bottom right: spring with cherry blossoms and tulips

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Top left: summer with lilies, carnations and clematis
Top right: autumn and winter with aruncus, fennel and sunflowers
Bottom: spring with buttercups and anemones

Top: spring and summer with gentiana, clematis and anemones
Bottom left: calla, buttercups, eucalyptus, twigs and grasses
Bottom right: spring-summer-autumn with different shades of green and structures3031

Nuage (céramique)
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Nuage (céramique)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2018
The Nuage vases in ceramic are elaborately handcrafted, resulting in scarcely discernible differencesthat make each charming vase a unique object.
The undulating surfaces produce an attractive
interplay of light and shadow, and individual vases
can be assembled into entire ‚cloud formations‘.

The eight outer openings converge in the interior toform a single space. Unlike the aluminium Nuage,
this allows flowers, grasses, leaves or twigs to beinserted at a slant in the vase.
The Nuage Céramique allows you to imitate natureand create arrangements reminiscent of wild gardens or meadows. Regardless of whether the flowers
are from the florist or plucked from the meadow,
they will always be perfectly presented in the white
Nuage Céramique.

Tip:First insert a few twigs in the vase. The intersections of these twigs will support the flowers
you add later.

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Top left: spring with daffodils and chaenomeles
Top right: autumn and winter with typha, sunflowers and hydrangeas
Bottom: winter with small spruce trees with roots, twisted willow and Vitra Girard Ornaments,
amaryllis and Eames House Bird

Top: spring with tulips and corkscrew willow
Bottom left: spring and summer with buttercups, craspedia, hypericum and nerines
Bottom right: summer with irises, craspedia and birch twigs

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