Style Setters: Vases going green

Home Accessories Spotlight: Green Vases

Lindsey Hughes -- Home Accents Today, 11/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Typically associated with growth and vitality, green lends a fresh perspective to vase designs this season. The lush palette varies in saturation from avocado and lime to glowing emerald and blackened olive. Bottling up chic style, these vessels spotlight sleek bodies with a healthy dose of details. Here's to taking a walk on the green side.

Mimicking the pattern left by saltwater on shoreline boulders, the Plankton Ball vase is mouth-blown and displays a mottled salt finish from 18 Karat ($52).	Firefly Home Collection's vase pieces together an elegant mosaic pattern in sparkling lime ($40).

An abstract fern leaf pattern traverses Rahjeez Collections' creamy ceramic vase adding a funky twist to a classic style ($22).	Lazy Susan's Moss Optical glass vases display a unique ribbed design from the Absinthe Collection ($51).

The Chiseled Square vases from Cyan Design stack glowing green blocks up sleek black glass towers for a striking effect.	Swirls of deep forest green create textural interest on the assorted ceramic vases from Three Hands.

Artistically rendered artichoke leaves are hand-applied to Global Views' Artichoke vases, spotlighting a silky green hue ($159 to $289).	Palecek's Lime Glass Swirl Bulb vase is blown in a mold to create the shape, showcasing a finger-paint design added during the blowing process by dipping the glass into colored powders ($78).

A tangy coat of acid green swathes Tozai Home's traditionally shaped porcelain vases ($325, set of six).	Hints of amber and tobacco cradle a pool of green on the Murano glass vase from Mila Brown International.

All prices are suggested retail.