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

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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

Beauty and the Beast’s new flower vase doesn’t make a mess

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Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite Disney films and the scene where the petal drops is such a poetic visual. However, in real life when petals keep dropping one by one it is not as magical, in fact, it can get annoying when they come under your feet or are constantly at the countertop no matter how many times you clean. Prop is a conceptual vase that turns this petal plunge into petal power with one simple twist to the conventional vase.

Prop’s most distinct feature is the petal plate – we usually don’t see this in a vase and I like the idea that it can catch petals before they fall down so it looks artistic instead of messy! It has three simple parts – the vase, the water bottle, and the petal plate. To add a touch of rich aesthetic, the glass slides were covered with a plating material. The plate makes it easy to discard all petals together instead of one by one (that you pick from the surrounding surfaces) and the water bottle is a convenient way to add or change the water.

The elegant yet functional flower vase comes in three colors – budding yellow, blooming red and faded orange. The warm tones complement your flowers and make your space cozy. Prop reimagines the traditional flower vase and brings back a little bit of the Disney magic without the mess!

Designer: Fountain Studio and Soohyeon Lim

This flower-vase is also a fire-extinguisher

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As useful as they are, fire-extinguishers are also designed to be too utilitarian and technical. They’re stored in attics and store-rooms, because they aren’t particularly aesthetic, and working them usually requires knowing how to operate them.

Even though laws dictate that all homes in South Korea need to have a fire extinguisher, as many as 58% of them don’t… and the ones that do, have them lying in hard-to-reach places. In order to equip Koreans with a product that’s easy to use, and can sit in one’s house in plain sight, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance partnered with Cheil Worldwide to design the Firevase. A double-walled flower-vase with potassium carbonate filled in the sealed hollow space. The Firevase works like any normal vase, allowing you to place flowers in its inner container, while the hollow space holds the potassium carbonate which looks like water… but in the event of an emergency, the vase becomes your fire extinguisher. Designed to be thrown at a fire, the vase shatters when it hits the floor or a wall, allowing the potassium carbonate to spill out. The Potassium Carbonate starts a rapid cooling reaction that suppresses oxygen, eventually putting out the fire.

Made to look aesthetically pleasing, and have a user experience that’s much simpler than working a complex fire extinguisher, the Firevase can put out a fire by just being thrown at it… like a Molotov cocktail, but with the absolute opposite effect! Plus, the fact that it’s well-designed and has a home-friendly aesthetic means the unsuspecting fire-extinguisher will sit around your house in plain sight, storing flowers when you want, and allowing you to fight fire when you need!

Designers: Wanmo Koo, Jeakyun Kim, Sungjin Lee, Taeyul Ko (Cheil Worldwide) for Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance.