Melt In vase

The gentle touch of cement

Behind the art-design brand PRASKLO are Petra Švejdarová and Klára Vaculíková - an artistic tandem that has been prominent on the Czech scene since 2016. PRASKLO is engaged in the creation of unique vases and objects from waste glass and concrete. They do not create limited editions, on the contrary, each vase from PRASKLO is an original with its own story, made in only one piece. Their pieces are based on a fascination with stone as an elementary natural material, a fascination with its structure and various forms.

PRASKLO is inspired not only by nature, but also by architectural brutalism. Some of their vases build on the beauty of minimalism, but most of the time, purposefully imperfect and organic shapes prevail, as a reference to the primitive origin of stone. Crack restores a useful and aesthetic function to discarded glass objects, which in dialogue with processed concrete are given a new opportunity. Everything is done traditionally, "the old-fashioned way", without the use of computer 3D technologies. This gives the objects from PRASKLO the energy of something ancient to archaic and opens up space for basic emotions and instincts.