Its simple solidity provides a striking contrast to the floral splash of color: cast and polished by hand from concrete, this vase highlights the delicate beauty of your small bouquet or individual flowering branches. The low-set center of gravity gives the vase additional stability, and a cork plate attached underneath protects the surfaces of your furniture. You do not have to worry about water stains on the table, dresser or windowsill anyway: the concrete was hydrophobized and is therefore reliably waterproof.

Concrete as a building material has long since made its way from exterior architecture into interior design and even into the visual arts - even if there are still certain reservations about the material: It is said to be massive, clunky, more of a block on the leg than a decorative or even artistic object. Complete misconceptions, as the designs cast in concrete by the young Cologne-based Beske manufactory demonstrate. The Beske brothers prefer to work with wood, steel - and concrete, which they cast by hand in painstaking detail. As a building and construction material, concrete is unique anyway: on the one hand, the machine-produced stone is easy to process, extremely stable and so robust that it can last for generations. But above all, and this is particularly important to the Cologne-based manufacturer, concrete consists of the natural raw materials water, sand and gravel with the addition of cement as a binding agent, which means that transportation distances can be kept short. And last but not least, the versatile material is perfect for the manufactory's purist designs, whose clear geometric shapes fit into any room and create striking accents.