Octo Vase 159k

Eight is the organising number here. The body divides into eight lobes running from foot to rim, so the silhouette shifts noticeably as you move around it and the shadow lines between the lobes do most of the decorative work. Where a plain cylinder gives you a single view, a lobed vessel like this gives you a different one from every side of the room. It suits a sideboard, a shelf run or the middle of a dining table as a standing sculpture, and takes dried grasses, pampas and seed heads happily if you would rather it were filled than bare. The number in the name marks this out as one variant in a series rather than a one-off, which is worth knowing if you like arrangements: several from the family, printed at different heights and clustered together, read better than a single vessel standing alone.