7. Collab cool: the Skinny laMinx x Vorster & Braye “Fortuna” vase

As part of Skinny laMinx’s collaborative Promenade collection, ceramicists Vorster & Braye have developed the new Fortuna vase – an homage to an iconic apartment block in CapeTown’s Sea Point.

At Vorster & Braye, we have always been big fans of Skinny laMinx – so we were excited when Heather Moore approached us to create the vase she designed based on the Fortuna façade,” says Colin Braye, one half of the Cape Town-based ceramics brand. “Heather knows we love a good challenge, and that we’d be willing to coax the clay into sharp corners and straight sides, where it doesn’t usually like to go!”

Heather’s clever design includes a recess in the base of the vase that allows it to be stacked over the lip of another; each vase also features one protruding and one recessed side. The result is a uniquely tactile and subtly eye-catching vessel with which you can build up, Lego-like, a wall of facets and smooth sides that play in the light.

The faceted geometric sides of a stack of Fortuna vases create a visual effect that reflects the midcentury façade of the well-known apartment building – situated on Sea Point’s Beach Road – for which they are named. “The Fortuna vase works well on its own with a single stem flower or dry grasses, or stacked as an architectural statement, playing with pattern and repetition,” says Colin.

These vases make a charming gift, too: each one comes carefully, individually boxed in a nest of shredded paper, and wrapped in risograph-printed paper that’s been stamped with the Fortuna design and story. skinnylaminx.com | vorsterandbraye.co.za