Intanto is a small family of floating vases, designed by Mario Trimarchi with Alessi, that comes from reflecting on the indeterminate period of time accompanying a flower from the moment it’s cut until the time it wilts and fades away. Evoking this limbo, an unexpected addition to the life of the flower, forever separated from its plant, is the dewdrop- shaped vases in transparent glass that are seemingly suspended in midair by means of an almost invisible lattice of metal wire. In the flowers’ own words, Intanto (in the meantime) is just a drop of dew hanging in the midst of unstable spiderwebs. “Intanto” is an exercise in designing vases that in the end are lighter than the flowers that they contain. “Intanto” is designed in three dimensions, for one, a few or for a bunch of flowers.

Description: Flower vase with container.
Materials: 18/10 stainless steel, container in glass.
Dimensions: Height: 30 cm, Diameter: 15 cm.
Date of production: 2010.