Geometric Twin-Column Ceramic Vase Space Age, Italy 1970

This vase captures the playful, futuristic spirit of late-1970s and 1980s design. It is built as two upright, rectangular-section columns of different heights, joined on an offset, stepped base so that the silhouette reads like a stylised skyline or a fragment of abstract architecture. Each column is open at the top, giving two separate vase mouths. The whole surface is finished in a glossy glaze — an acid lime-green ground animated by a dense red-orange spatter — that makes the geometry vibrate with colour. Crisp-edged and architectural, it is as much a piece of pop sculpture as a vase.