GOLD FUSCA VASE BY CONSTANCE GUISSET

If the Fusca in burgundy and copper is the warmth of a theatre at curtain rise, the GOLD FUSCA VASE BY CONSTANCE GUISSET is the moment just after the lights go down — deep, still, and electric with anticipation. Constance Guisset’s most dramatically proportioned vase silhouette takes on an entirely different character in this pairing: the base rendered in gloss charcoal grey, dark and grounded as polished graphite, rising from the floor of the form with a quiet authority that makes the gold above it feel all the more incandescent.

And the gold above it is extraordinary. The wide, tilted disc — the element that gives GOLD FUSCA VASE BY CONSTANCE GUISSET its entire personality, that references equally a calla lily’s spathe, a diva’s wide-brimmed stage hat, and the spread collar of a lion’s mane — is finished in deep mirror gold, its surface scored with the same fine radiating ridges that run from the central throat to the outer rim in every direction simultaneously. In natural light the ridges catch and scatter the gold into something that resembles hammered metal more than ceramic. In warmer interior light they deepen and glow, the disc becoming something close to a burnished golden shield, tilted at precisely the angle where form tips into drama.

The dark charcoal of the base and the full warmth of the gold disc are a pairing with genuine emotional range: masculine and feminine in balance, architectural and organic in conversation, restrained below and abundant above. The throat of the vase — that small eccentric opening at the junction of disc and stem — sits exactly where a calla lily’s spadix emerges from its spathe, and it is here that a single dark stem, a branch of dried seed pods, or a spray of winter berries can be placed, the gold disc functioning as the most spectacular collar any flower has ever had.

At 46 × H.46 cm (Cod.1830) the large GOLD FUSCA VASE BY CONSTANCE GUISSET is a room-defining piece — a vase that can hold a living room conversation from a single corner. At 32 × H.33 cm (Cod.1831) it is an intimate sculptural statement: a sideboard piece, a console accent, or a bedroom gold vase sculpture centerpiece that changes the register of everything placed beside it. Either scale delivers the full spectacle of a silhouette that Guisset designed, explicitly, to give free rein to the imagination — and in this colorway, that imagination runs toward theatre, ceremony, and the particular luxury of objects that hold nothing back.

Specifications

• Material: Ceramic — colored enamels with precious metal finish
• Finish: Gloss charcoal grey tapered base; deep mirror gold radiating ridged disc
• Form Inspiration: Calla lily, diva’s stage gown, lion’s mane
• Colors: Gloss charcoal grey, mirror gold
• Available Sizes:
  • Large — Cod.1830: Ø46 × H.46 cm (Ø18.1″ × H.18.1″)
  • Small — Cod.1831: Ø32 × H.33 cm (Ø12.6″ × H.13″)
• Use: Indoor — sideboard, mantelpiece, console, pedestal display