Perhaps the design looks familiar to you? You're absolutely right: the design of this vase is based on the famous København plant pot made of Tuscan terracotta, which you can also find in our range. Its design was inspired by the historical planters that Steffen Berg, the second-generation Bergs-Potter managing director, discovered in Fredensborg Castle in Denmark and translated into modern design. To enable this royally inspired presentation for fresh bouquets as well as potted plants, Bergs Potter works together with a glass manufacturer that can draw on a century of craftsmanship experience. They have succeeded in transferring the Bergs Potter design with its subtle scale decoration from pottery to glass. This thick-walled vase is weighty, stable and has that glassy clarity that lends it visual lightness despite the opulence of the material and majestically underlines the colorful blooms of your cut flowers.

When Victor Berg inherited his ceramics business in Copenhagen in 1942, it was particularly important to him to make the everyday lives of his fellow human beings a little more colorful in gray times. In the words of the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen: "Life alone is not enough, said the butterfly. You must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." So Berg always kept a bouquet of vases and pots in his store and also added cut flowers to the range. The people of Copenhagen liked this - over the years, several stores in the Danish capital were added, and eventually also plant pots and planters based on his own designs. When Victor Berg's children joined the family business in the 1980s, they began to have their own ideas - initially inspired by historical models that they found all over Europe - molded in terracotta. To this end, Bergs Potter still works with traditional potteries in Tuscany, more precisely in Lucca, and now also in Portugal; a tradition that is now being continued with great dedication by the third generation of Bergs. The preferred material is the famous southern Tuscan Galestro clay, which is rich in minerals and is considered to be particularly frost-resistant. Once fired, even the unglazed terracotta can show shades of red and pink, gray and white - an appealing natural patina that only this clay possesses. Another advantage for the health of your potted plants: the carbonate and potassium salts contained in the clay ensure good permeability, which can have a particularly positive effect on the development of the root system.