If a budding design superstar created a Science Fair project, it might resemble Studio Libertiny's amazing "Made by Bees" vase.This
classically-shaped vase, made of honeycomb and as the name suggests,
made BY bees -- has to be one of the oddest, rarest and wonderfully
weirdest design items we've ever run across.The
vase was originally created in 2006, when Rotterdam-based,
Slovakian-born designer Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny teamed with the
Entomology Research Center at Wageningen University for a rather
unusual experiment.The designer constructed a
"vase-shaped" hive from wax sheets, and allowed 40,000 bees to colonize
it and build a honeycomb around it.The resulting honeycomb vase wound up in the MoMA collection in 2007.
Now, Libertiny has improved on the original, adding color to the mix.He
adds a red wax dye to the hive before the bees begin building, and the
resulting honeycomb vase emerges in a bright, vivid red.Since
each vase takes a full week and the efforts of 40,000 bees to produce,
no doubt they don't come cheap and preserving the finished product
requires temperature control and special maintenance.Each
vase comes with a numbered certificate from the artist and is
hopefully free of stowaway "workers" so the lucky owner doesn't get
stung.At least by anything more than the price tag
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