It all started in the summer of 2017 when Frank Bruggeman bought a globular, hanging, Mobach vase online. To his dismay, the late-1970s Dutch design icon arrived in pieces. Something had gone terribly wrong in transit. Attempting to repair it was futile: there were simply too many fragments. When Bruggeman realised he couldn’t throw away the shards, he began to think about another use for them. …
It all started in the summer of 2017 when Frank Bruggeman bought a globular, hanging, Mobach vase online. To his dismay, the late-1970s Dutch design icon arrived in pieces. Something had gone terribly wrong in transit. Attempting to repair it was futile: there were simply too many fragments. When Bruggeman realised he couldn’t throw away the shards, he began to think about another use for them. He decided that they should once again become part of a three-dimensional vase. This was the genesis of his first shard vase, in which he attached the fragments to a cylindrical container in such a way …
