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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[...] UdowodniÅ‚ to Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny, który zainspirowany wysiÅ‚kiem pszczół, stworzyÅ‚ wazon z plastrów miodu. OczywiÅ›cie jego rola “ograniczyÅ‚a” siÄ™ do zbudowania odpowiedniego ulu, w którym pszczoÅ‚y mogÅ‚y bez przeszkód tworzyć swoje dzieÅ‚o. Poza oryginalnym wyglÄ…dem, wazon ma również swego rodzaju przesÅ‚anie. Jak tÅ‚umaczy autor, pszczeli wosk pozyskiwany jest z kwiatów, przez co jego naturalna forma jest dla roÅ›lin idealnym miejscem “ostatniej podróży”. Przy procesie tworzenia, zwanym przez autora “powolnym prototypowaniem” braÅ‚o udziaÅ‚ 40.000 pszczół tygodniowo. [via Techie Diva, Uber Review] [...]
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