The Atrion vase came out of a studio meeting where somebody wanted a sculpted tall vase and somebody else wanted a column ceramic vase, and rather than pick one the team quietly built both into a single silhouette and moved on with the day. Nobody remembers who suggested the name. Best guess is a committee — possibly Scandinavian, possibly just tired — landing on a word that sounds like a tall vase without committing to being one, the way a piece of furniture assembled with a hex key sounds like furniture until you sit on it. In the tallest size it rises to a solid fifteen inches and stands its ground regardless of what you decided to plant in it. Longer stems get some room, shorter stems get patience. Artisans shape these pieces by hand, and the finish varies enough between examples that nobody would suspect them of coming off an assembly line.
