Rest Vase – White

Prempracha's Collection has shaped stoneware ceramics in San Kamphaeng, near Chiang Mai, since 1986, still run today by the family that founded it.

Working with ceramicist Sarngsan Na Soontorn, the workshop designed the Rest collection around a single idea: nine vase forms, each with a wide base and an opening built for one stem, not an arrangement. The wide base has a second job - catching the petals as a flower moves from bud to bloom to wither, so its whole life plays out on the ceramic beneath it. Each of the nine forms is glazed in one colour only.

This form comes in a matt white, its base 23 by 23 centimetres and standing 11.5 centimetres tall. Every piece is hand-formed, so slight variations in glaze and shape are part of the object, not a flaw in it.