Tambi

Resistance is fruitful. There’s an apocalypse happening every time you scroll. When you want to cleanse the palette, you look at 'harmless' lifestyle content, you swipe past twenty-three algorithmic variants of things you already know you like: another beige sofa, artisanal gin, a cute loafer.

What dies in this avalanche is desire. The algorithm killed it. Let's rekindle some desire.

Consider the GRAVITY vase. It does not optimize. It does not anticipate you.

It resists. That resistance is the point. Friction is the story.

This vase was designed with one of the most creative florists we could find, to help you fall in love with flower arranging (all over again). This vase changes the rules, there are new restrictions and new possibilities, branches can slide in from the side, you can mix dried flowers and fresh flowers, your arrangement can be regular and ordered or violently asymmetric and horizontal. You can create a narrative cut into air.

Your eye tracks it, your hand wants to follow. Your friends ask what the hell it is, and not out of politeness, there is friction, resistance, creativity. Tambi Flower Natrually, to fine tune this concept, we engaged the help of a Japanese internet sensation.

Noa Sakamoto, founder of TAMBI FLOWER and the gallery PUPIL in Japan, pushes floristry into the realm of contemporary art. His sculptural arrangements channel fragility, desire, and human emotion, asserting flowers as a medium with the cultural weight of painting or sculpture His flowers do not sit still. They provoke.

They misbehave. They are cheeky, difficult, alive. And in this cage they push harder, until they burst out, monstrous and radiant.

We sent prototypes back and forth to Japan to develop the vases way of working with Sakamotos flowers, to get the size and the rhythm just right. Then we had the pieces of the vase custom etched in mirror polished stainless steel in northern Italy, before having them shipped to our workshop for Berliners with disabilities to be carefully assembled under our noses here in Berlin. A vase designed and made between made in Berlin and Nishinomiya, with technical assistance from skilled workshops in the Veneto.

Luxury dulls. This sharpens. A stainless steel vase with an attitude problem.

A Berlin problem. Function that flirts with confrontation. Flowers that refuse to play nice.

Not decoration. Declaration. The point (too large for a product really but we have to start somewhere) is to make a thing that wants you to want again.

This is not luxury. GRAVITY - VASE L