Tidal Current Vase

The Tidal Current Vase by John Richard moves through a room the way its name suggests — with a sense of fluid momentum arrested at precisely the right moment, its silhouette tracing a continuous, unhurried arc from base to rim. Proportion here is the whole conversation: neither imposing nor receding, it occupies its surface with the quiet authority of a piece that understands scale intuitively. A singular object that rewards the eye from every angle, it belongs equally to a considered tablescape or to the solitary dignity of a console left largely bare.