Anyone shopping for a koi fish vase online should be warned that the Carp is not particularly interested in resembling a carp until you have been looking at it for a while. As a carp vase it stretches nearly ten inches along a countertop, a fish shaped vase built in ceramic and glazed to catch light the way water does when a fin breaks the surface. The studio has thought about this pairing for longer than is reasonable and still cannot say what a carp has ever done for a flower, or a flower for a carp, and yet here they are, fused together on a counter, apparently for life. Nobody at the pond has ever looked at a fish and thought that animal understands floral arrangement. Artisans shape these pieces by hand, so no two bodies curve quite the same way, and the shape stays charming against every argument to the contrary.
