Vase Styles

Antique

• Silver antique bud vase styles evoke elegance and bygone eras on your holiday table décor. They look charming on a breakfast tray for a visiting guest used to room service, too. Silver urns and white pitchers are other antique vase style looks. Fill them with fresh cut flowers for a more casual look. Place flowers with varying stem lengths in them, as it will make your vase arrangement look fuller. Use daisies for a simplistic pitcher and roses for an urn.

Modern

• Modern vase styles come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They can be narrow and tall, in rectangular shapes. They can be round, like a bowl. Some are tall and slender, others are short and fat. Some designs lean strongly in one direction, or they can sit upright on your table. They can cling to a wall, stand on the floor or hang from a suspended piece of metal. Modern vase styles are made from materials that include glass, metal, paper, plastic and natural materials, which include wood. For another modern vase look, place a 4-inch square vase inside a 6-inch vase. Make sure they are both the same height and clear glass color. Fill the space between them with water and slices of lime before adding your fresh-cut flower bouquet to the interior vase.

Natural

• Natural products such as clay, grass, metal and wood were fashioned into vases, historically. Potters made vases in urn shapes to carry water for cooking and bathing purposes as well as holding flowers in the home. Metal vases and urns served similar purposes. Baskets can serve as vases for artificial flowers. Placing another container inside a basket to hold water enables you to use the basket as a vase for fresh-cut flowers, too. Even twigs can be woven into a flower vase, and pumpkins can be gutted for the same purpose.

Significance

• Vases are typically seen in the home, office and commercial building settings. But vases have been seen in automobile interiors in the past, historically and even in the present.