Madrid designer Jorge Penadés has repurposed extruded aluminium parts from old lamps and shelves to create a series of multicoloured vases for furniture brand BD Barcelona Design.
Called Pisces, the limited-edition collection consists of six fluted vases with geometric structures and exposed joints.

Presented next week at Salone del Mobile, which takes place during Milan design week, the vases feature bright, contrasting colours, inspired by coral reef fish in the Mediterranean sea.
"I was born in the small fisherman's village of Málaga in Andalucía, and my parents live one minute away from the sea, so I grew up literally on the beach," Penadés told Dezeen.
"Since BD Barcelona Design is based in Barcelona, I thought that the Mediterranean sea was something that we both shared and therefore we could use as a source of inspiration for the project," he explained.
BD Barcelona Design supplied the designer with aluminium parts left over and dismantled from its discontinued products.
Penadés used a laser-cutting machine to divide the aluminium profiles longitudinally and reconfigured them using thin, double-sided tape, before securing with glue.

Each piece in the series sees the extruded aluminium parts arranged into one of three configurations. "The shapes came from the exercise of rearranging the different parts together,"  he said.
The Spanish designer often uses repurposed materials when designing products. His Structural Skin tabl...