London designer Phil Cuttance has created a series of herringbone-patterned vases from a gradated mixture of Jesmonite and crushed rock, to achieve an ombre effect.
Each vase in the Herringbone Stone Blend collection has been made by hand using Jesmonite ? a fine, water-based, composite material that shares similar qualities to cement ? and stone.
The vases come in three colourways, created from three different stone blends ? pink granite and bathstone, black granite and charcoal, or sandstone and terracotta.
The Jesmonite is combined with these mixtures of two types of crushed stone to create an ombre effect, with a stronger, more concentrated colour at the bottom that fades to white.

The designer welcomes any small imperfections that often happen as part of the process and can be seen upon closer inspection, seeing them as an indication of the hand-made nature of each piece. According to Cuttance, the vases are often assumed to be made using processes such as 3D printing or CNC, but each is in fact made by hand in his London studio.
"I am interested in creating objects whose form, often detailed and visually complex, belies the hand-made, lo-fi processes by which they are created," the designer explained.

He starts by creating a custom folding-pattern, which he projects onto a flat sheet-material. This material is then folded by hand to form a 3D herringbone-shaped relief.
He then uses this relief as a flat mould that he casts resin onto, before manipulating t...