This extremely cool looking vase is the brainchild of designer Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny. He had the bright idea to make a bee shaped hive and then coax actual bees to colonize it by embossing wax sheets with a honeycomb pattern. The finished product was presented at Droog’s Smart Deco 2 show in Milan this year.

Libertiny explains his thought process behind the vase thusly:

To give a form to this natural product it has occurred more than logical to choose a form of a vase as a cultural artifact. Beeswax comes from flowers and in the form of a vase ends up serving flowers on their last journey.

Libertiny also explained that the process, which he called “slow prototyping,” took 40,000 bees a week to create.

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