They're perfectly good vases!
Good vases for flowers tend to share certain traits: among them, a somewhat narrow neck, for holding flowers upright, and a largish bottom that provides a stable base and allows stems to branch outward.
Almost any flower, leaf or branch can look good in the right vase.
Also, a good flower vase should have style, she said, but not so much that it distracts.
In addition, the museum produces and sells home goods — including vases, flowerpots, coffee mugs and plates — that are made out of a compound of baked manure and clay that they call merdacotta — "baked shit".
Matching bedside tables with delicate lamps; try leadlight lamps or lamps with bone china bases (you can get these made at your local lighting store with a good bone china vase find).
The ground floor is all kitchen and scrubbed pine café, while the first-floor dining-room has a quiet, confident elegance that comes from smart white-clothed tables, good glassware and vases of blowsy white roses under a soaring warehouse ceiling.
Unlike terra-cotta, which is breakable but otherwise practically indestructible, bronze is subject to corrosion; and a surviving Greek bronze vase in good condition is therefore something of a rarity.
NEW SHANGHAI CIRCUS The performers in this Chinese troupe include a child phenomenon who executes astonishingly lithe slow-motion acrobatics and a beautiful young girl who dances while balancing twenty wineglasses (and a flower vase, for good measure) on the bridge of her nose.
It's tradition within my family to celebrate Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year, with a freshly bought outfit, a vase full of flowering branches and a good meal.
