Colate Small | Ceramic Vase

The Colate vase is part of NIVA design's Colate collection, a series of hand-built ceramic vessels exploring the sculptural language of stacked, rounded forms, silhouettes drawn from river stones and glacial pebbles, reassembled into functional objects. Each colourway carries its own tonal gradient, hand-applied through glazing rather than printed or uniform colour, meaning no two vases are entirely alike.

Crafted from terracotta and hand-thrown by master ceramicist Daniel Cavey, Colate combines raw material honesty with refined form. Its three-tiered, biomorphic silhouette reads as both vessel and sculpture, equally at ease holding a single stem or standing alone as an object of quiet presence. The matte, sand-textured surface catches light unevenly across its curves, giving each piece a tactile, almost geological quality that shifts with the hour and the angle of view. As each vase is entirely handmade, slight variations in shape and proportion are part of its individual character.

Collectible Ceramics Rooted in Craft

Part of the Colate collection designed by Nicole Valenti for NIVA design, Colate reflects a practice built on the dialogue between contemporary form and traditional Italian ceramic craftsmanship. The piece transforms an everyday object, the vase, into a collectible work of functional art, produced entirely by hand in Tuscany. Its sculptural stacked geometry and hand-glazed finish position it at the intersection of collectible design, ceramic art and interior objects intended to be lived with rather than simply displayed.

Lead Time: 8 Weeks
Dimensions (cm): diameter 12 x H 16/18
Material: Hand-thrown terracotta, hand-glazed
Category: collectible design, functional art, ceramic vessel
Designer: Nicole Valenti (NIVA design)