Vases

Fundamental.Berlin cuts them from crystal and polished stainless steel, and lets the geometry do the work that decoration usually does.

Rainbow vases are cut from Krone Neun crystal and carry a dichroic film across each facet. Crystal already splits light; the film amplifies what is latent in the glass, so a spectrum appears and shifts as you move past it. Sizes run from a small stem vase to the sculptural Angle Vase, cut from a solid block.

Cobalt vases — Hash and Wedge — are cut and polished from solid cobalt crystal. Repeated rounds of polishing give the depth of colour. The Wedge sits at an angle, an object that reads as mid-motion while standing still.

Gravity vases are a warped steel grid, made in Italy and assembled by hand in Berlin. The Micro Vase holds a single stem on a desk. Vase L takes a full arrangement. The Candleholder Vase does both, with a glass insert so it can hold water.

Gunnar Rönsch and Steve Molloy trained as architects before they started cutting crystal in Berlin in 2011. The vases are governed by the same rules the buildings were.