“Libertiny’s “collaboration” with honey bees pushes the boundaries of so-called conventional design by defying mass production and enabling nature to create what would typically be considered a man-made product. Studio Libertiny’s bee vase not only tells the story, but does so in an ecologically derived, natural way that concedes the human manufacturing process to something simpler and more beautiful.
The material comes from flowers as a by-product of bees and in the form of a vase ends up serving flowers on their last journey.
It took 40,000 bees and one week to make a single vase. Not meaning it as a euphamism, we called this process “slow prototyping”. (Libertiny, 2007)
Specific Material Attributes
Studio Libertiny | Workshops
Schiestraat 46, 3013 AH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Images property of the material owners.
-Libertiny, T., (2007) Made by Bees. Retrieved from http://www.tomaslibertiny.com/sculpture/#/the-honeycomb-vase-yellow/
-Photos by Raoul Kramer and the designer.
-Film by Rene van der Hulst.