'A Peaceful Bomb' vase  

neat
but a little too Starck-kitsch for me.

I like it
One of the better examples of contemporary art pottery.
Would be better if it was matte though.

The fact that it leans...
The fact that it leans bothers me - I get that it is supposed to look like a bomb which has buried itself - but I don't like the awkward balance.
I also dislike quirky design in general. Especially design that plays off of such an easy target such as war. What's the point?

I like it.
I like it.

Swords into ploughshares,
ceramic version.

And the interesting thing is that...
one could scatter some look-alike, live ordnance (aka bombs) among the bomb vases and discourage burglars and other intruders.
Or perhaps the designers could specify that the bomb vases are made of depleted uranium, like real bombs.
I have a long standing problem with civilian adoption/adaptation of forms/artifacts of warfare in our civilian artifacts. Its betrays a creeping blight of militarization of our societies, and it suggests that warfare is a sensible/moral means of bringing new technologies on line.
It is true that many good artifacts have been developed for military use and then subsequently disseminated through the civilian economy afterwards.
But it is also true that it would always have been better to have skipped the war application and developed the artifact directly for the civilian economy.
The problem with product migration from the war economy to the civilian economy is that it: a) institutionalizes the expectation of this migration; and b) rewards private sector corporations, and ultimately consumers, for allowing our civilian economy to be coopted into the war economy. War, as R&D, is a sick activity. Space exploration, as R&D, was a little more benign.
Surely society and its professionals can rally around the moral/ethical idea of opposing the use of war as an R&D activity and an economic stimulus package, can't they?
Ooops, politics and ethics rear their hoary heads again on DA. 🙂

dc
Interesting point... Surely, this vase would not exist if the bomb on which it is based did not precede it. But I think this vase is just one of the many iterations of "clever" or "ironic" design. There are plenty of other designs in a similar vein which are not military- or war-based. It is also attempting to make a political statement as its name implies, however superficial or flimsy that statement may be.