The Bauhaus school of design inspires the striking stained glass colors and geometric shapes of these vases!

Trio is a collection of three stained glass vases inspired by the Bauhaus school of art and design to bring a timeless edge to the traditional glass vase.

Finding the perfect vase for flowers is sometimes the most fun when arranging bouquets. Bunchier flowers deserve a bulkier, more bulbous vase. While more delicate flower arrangements could use a skinny, minimalist vase. You know the right vase when you see it.

Vases also carry a long, intricate history in ceramics and glass-making that dates back centuries. Taking notes from one historical art school of design, Bauhaus, Ashley Case designed three different vases in its style to accommodate all types of flower arrangements and create a collection called Trio.

Case’s study on Bauhaus design took shape in the art school’s commitment to simplicity, bold colors, and geometric lines. All three vases are molded from sturdy stained glass that creates shadows of color when natural light pours through them. The first vase, a deep cobalt blue, forms three-quarters of a circle and suspends in midair from a black steel cradle that entirely surrounds the vase.

Then, a vertical, rectangular vase coated in lemon yellow stained glass remains in place inside of a four-bar black steel crate. Finally, an inverted triangular vase dipped in scarlet red balances above an empty platform inside a similar black steel crate. All three vases are undoubtedly inspired by Bauhaus design, an art school devoted to integrating a timelessly modern look into any era.

The Bauhaus school of design came to life in 1919, following geometric and abstract styles of design that feature little to no emotion and personality. Instead, the school encourages a timeless look that nods to no cultural or historical aspect in particular. Ashley Case’s collection of vases called Trio embodies Bauhaus through their minimal profiles and strikingly colorful displays that create dazzling shadows of light color to hearken back to the art school’s heyday.

Designer: Ashley Case

Each vase is molded from the stained glass in striking colors reminiscent of the Bauhaus school of design. 

Each vase can accommodate a variety of different flower arrangements, according to your personal taste. 

Cleverly designed book opens into a pop-up vase for flowers!





Books and flowers are arguably the two biggest must-haves when it comes to table decor… so what happens when you combine the two together? Meet the ‘Flowery Tale’, a visual portmanteau by Japan-based design brand Mecli. The Flowery Tale comes designed to outwardly look like a book, but open it up and it turns into a 3D vase made out of the book’s specially-cut pages. When opened, the hard-bound book’s spine provides ample negative space to slide a test tube through, and there you have it, a ‘paper’ vase with flowers blooming through! I mean, this is just MADE for Instagram!

The Flowery Tale comes with three different vase designs (cutouts, to be precise) built into the same book. With thick partitions separating them, you can simply open up the book to any vase design you want, and the cut-out pages give you the visual gestalt of continuity, resembling a vase made out of paper. The vases are designed to be inverted too, so while each book comes with 3 vase designs, they can be flipped over resulting in as many as 6 different visual styles to go with your flowers. The test-tube comes with a stopper that allows it to rest on the top of the book without sliding through, and the Flowery Tale’s pages are waterproof, so a little splash of water won’t do them any harm!

Designer: Mecli

LEGO’s Realistic Flower Bouquet Set: Stop and Smell the Plastic

What do you get the LEGO loving lover in your life? How about LEGO set #10280, the 756-piece Creator Flower Bouquet? The $50 flower set makes the perfect gift to build with your special someone and is being released just in time for Valentine’s Day. Plus these ones won’t be dead in the kitchen trash by February 21st.

Now just build a LEGO box of chocolates and a LEGO teddy bear and you’re all set for Valentine’s Day. And while these plastic flowers might not smell like their real counterparts, they will break into 756 pieces if you accidentally drop them. Real flowers can’t do that!

I plan on building this set with my wife, then spraying them with her favorite perfume so every time she stops to smell them she’s reminded of the Valentine’s Day I forgot to get her anything and tried to make it up to her two weeks later with a buildable LEGO bouquet. And they say romance is dead!

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Star Wars Plush Bouquet 3.0 – The Force of Love Awakens

When you and your significant other are both Star Wars fans, you don’t just trade chocolates shaped like hearts and generic floral bouquets. You make Star Wars the focal point of Valentine’s Day. Just like you do every day. Just hand the latest and greatest Star Wars Plush Bouquet to your mate and say, “I love you.” To which they will reply, “I know.” Then you can kiss, and if you are really nerdy she can watch you be lowered into a carbon freezing chamber.

This bouquet of 9 adorable Star Wars characters is a ThinkGeek tradition, and the latest version includes an adorable Porg, along with BB-8, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Leia, R2-D2, Wicket and Yoda. The Porg is the cutest one, although they are all adorable. All are long stemmed and freshly cut. Water them with the Force. Pop them off of their stems to play with them. This gift beats a floral arrangement any day. Maybe give your sweetie some Star Wars themed chocolates with these.

It is a great flower gift with no actual flowers at all, which means that they won’t die a week after you give them. That’s a gift I can get behind. Plus, these are toys so it’s a win/win all around.  Grab your bouquet over at ThinkGeek today for $79.99.

Buh-Bye Hallmark!

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There’s really something about brown paper packaging that looks down-to-earth, personal, and non-commercial. That’s why it lends itself beautifully to flowers. The last thing you want to do is corrupt a personal gesture with something that looks effortlessly store-bought. The Flower Packaging project taken up for Swedbag aims at bringing back that personal touch to the act of bouquet-giving. The packaging uses brown paper that can be easily folded into a cone to contain the flowers. Its unique design allows it to wrap around both small and large bouquets. The carrying bag for the bouquet is a breath of fresh air, with its unique shape, crafted to showcase the bouquet in all its natural glory.

Designed to be environment friendly, the bouquet cover makes no use of any adhesive. The carrying bag can too be easily reused by simply removing the label that holds it together. Now while I applaud any attempt to protect the environment, it does seem a little funny that we strive to protect mother nature while the bouquet is in itself, such a contradiction!

Designers: Johanna Brännström, Charlie Nyrjä, Alexandra Forssén and Camilla Edlund.

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Doctor Who Bouquet with Sonic Screwdriver

This lovely bouquet is perfect for your Doctor Who themed wedding. It very appropriately has roses made from the pages of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. The ribbon is of course a TARDIS blue.

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And instead of holding flower stems wrapped in ribbon, you can hold on to a sonic screwdriver – the 10th Doctor’s sonic screwdriver.

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“Show your love of the Doctor as you walk down the aisle. This lovely bouquet of roses is made out of a combination of book page and colored roses is attached to a toy replica of the sonic screwdriver (choose the 10th or 11th doctor). The screwdriver lights up at the bottom and makes fun noises.”

Your nerd wedding is now complete.

[via When Geeks Wed via Fashionably Geek]

Because Flowers are Overrated: Plush Unicorn Bouquet

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You’re either a cat lady or a unicorn lover. For the former, there’s the bouquet of plush kittens. For the latter, there’s this plush unicorn bouquet. It’s a lot like the plush kitten bouquet, only instead of kittens, you get unicorns. It makes sense for kittens to come in nines (like they do in the kitten bouquet), with them having nine lives and all.

But unicorns live far longer than that, so you get not nine but a total of eleven unicorns in white, purple, and cyan. Did that make sense? Probably not, but the important thing is that you get more unicorns for your buck.

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The Plush Unicorn Bouquet ships in a box and comes in beautiful wrapping. Roses die, carnations wilt, but plush unicorns will live forever. Each bouquet is priced at $50.

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Legendary Hero 8-Bit Heart Bouquet Beats Flowers

Sure, you could give your sweetie some flowers this Valentine’s Day and make it just like all the rest, but wouldn’t it be better to get her something to celebrate her geeky side? Here, take this Legendary Hero 8-Bit Heart Bouquet. It’s dangerous to go alone.
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Flowers die, but video games are forever. This 3D foam cutout is the perfect gift for your significant other. It even includes a fold-out stand for displaying on a desk or table. There are also holes in the back so you can mount it on the wall.

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It is only $12.99(USD) from ThinkGeek. Cheap and awesome. You gotta love that. Get her some chocolate too. You have to have chocolate.

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Sonic Screwdriver Bouquet: Do You Take This Doctor?

Suppose the Doctor and River Song got married. This would be River’s bouquet, because you know, that’s her sonic screwdriver as the stem. But in real life this was a human bride’s bouquet that not only features River’s sonic screwdriver, but there are also paper flowers from the pages of a Sherlock Holmes story on top. That makes it doubly awesome.
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Doctor Who fans with impending nuptials now have another project to keep them busy until the big day. You already have the TARDIS or Dalek cake, no doubt. The groom will be dressed like the Doctor, the bride like River Song and now you have a sonic screwdriver bouquet.

But don’t stop there. I want to see some Daleks walking her down the aisle and a Cyberman presenting the ring. Nah, that’s not too much.

[via Neatorama]