The Neptis vases are named from the Latin Neptis translated as “granddaughter”. Hereditary characteristics are passed on from each parent within the Neptis family. Each new offspring adds one extra facet to its face, growing proportionally larger.

“The minimum could be defined as the perfection an artifact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. It is the result of the omission of the inessentials”

John Pawson, b.1949, British Architect

In the execution of the plan the Neptis Vases do the minimum required to perform in terms of function and the minimum required to define the plan.

Photographs by Stephen Lenthall