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Click the image above for a larger view.
also made of beeswax:
Made by Bees:
Honeycomb vase
(red)


designer:
Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny

design year:
2006

manufacturer:
Studio Libertiny, the Netherlands

materials:
natural beeswax

notes:
Through this Rotterdam-based Slovakian designer's ingenious intervention, a colony of over 40,000 bees at the Entomology Reasearch Center of Wageningen University, the Netherlands, has created Libertiny's remarkable classically-shaped Honeycomb vase.

The red color is achieved by adding a red wax dye to the hive before the bees begin to build the vases.

A numbered certificate from the artist accompanies each example.

produced in a limited and numbered edition of seven unique pieces

Preservation of this object requires temperature control; for special instructions regarding the care and maintenance of this object, please inquire.

price upon request

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