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The very first common accomplishment of the Vessels studio was the Bon tableware collection, which they presented at this year's Designblok, winning a well-deserved success with it. The figures behind the brand are two graduates from the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Stanislav Holý and Veronika Watzková. Although each of them also works separately on their respective independent projects, Bon showed that they are equally good at designing together. Their premium product is a series of small interior objects. The glass vessels can either serve as jewel boxes or peculiar decorations. Holý and Watzková found their source of inspiration in the Japanese art of growing plants; hence, for example, the details reminiscent of small branches heavy with red berries. The vessels vary in dimensions and each consists of two parts a lid and a bottom, while both the precisely elaborated details on glass and the choice of color scheme and contrasts clearly testify to the refined and coherent concept of the designers.

One of the benefits of the new duo of designers is certainly their different professional backgrounds: Watzková studied in the K.O.V. studio headed by Eva Eisler and Stanislav Holý at the Department of Design in the studio, already led for several years by Michal Froněk and Jan Němeček. The fusion of various concepts and various standards in thinking seems to be a successful working momentum for the Vessels studio – equally as the admitted east- Asian inspiration added a due tinge of attractiveness to their Bon accessories. Their glass objects – ethereal and yet impossible to overlook – are characteristic of a mature and self-confident morphology which elevates their glass to items of utmost originality.

Veronika Pařízková