German designer Anika Engelbrecht combines simple ceramic vessels with colorful balloons to create the ‘Swell Vases’. The series is comprised of five different vase forms each perforated and designed with lots of negative space. By adding a series of colorful rubber balloons, each vase is able to hold water and flowers. The weight of the water fills the balloons and forces them out of the perforations in the vases. The result is white vases bulging with red, green and blue. The balloons can be rotated between the vases to create hundreds of different combinations.

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