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Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Simone on March 10, 2006, 07:52:36 PM

I have this vase that tapers off at the top, so you can't get many flowers in. The manager of a trendy restaurant gave it to me in 1998 because I loved the orchids that were in it and I wanted to take them home.  :P

Tapered vase (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/nobu1.jpg)
Base (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/nobu2.jpg)

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Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Max on March 10, 2006, 11:09:15 PM

Not sure you'll get an answer to this one Simone.  It could be made by so many companies....it could even be Ikea!   :?

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Simone on March 10, 2006, 11:12:51 PM

Quote from: "Max"

Not sure you'll get an answer to this one Simone.  It could be made by so many companies....it could even be Ikea!   :?

Hi Max,

I don't think it's Ikea because it's too much of an upmarket place, and even the soap in the loo is a designer make. I should have taken one of their nice ashtrays too...  :lol:

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Max on March 10, 2006, 11:16:50 PM

Ikea glass doesn't mean it's not a decently made piece of glass.  It's just not a 'designer' or recognised company's piece of glass.  

LSA glass could be classed as 'just Polish glass' and yet it sells for a premium.  :wink:

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Ivo on March 11, 2006, 08:36:57 AM

could well be a Krosno piece and I concur with Max that Ikea sells very similar items which they have produced to their own specifications in Hungary.
Krosno is very active in the higher quality market these days, I was at a glass studio the other day where they do engraving and sandblasting and they had dozens of Krosno blanks lined up. "Fourty years of devoted service to the council and all I got was this Krosno vase...."

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: aa on March 11, 2006, 11:02:26 AM

I suspect the orchids cost more than the vase!  :D Which restaurant?

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: Simone on March 11, 2006, 04:56:57 PM

Quote from: "aa"

I suspect the orchids cost more than the vase!  :D Which restaurant?

I doubt that the orchids cost more than the vase in Nobu. The meal cost enough at over £100 a head - without any dessert!

Title: Maker of tapered vase please?
Post by: aa on March 11, 2006, 05:39:43 PM

Well, David Collins designed the restaurant, so I'll try to remember to ask him where  the vase came from the next time I see him, but I still think orchids were probably more expensive than the vase..after all they were probably amazing and it was them that you admired, not the vase,  wasn't it?!