Architect and designer Ami Katz wanted to give something truly special and personal to her good friend and colleague Fanny for her 50th birthday. It would be a vase that she had designed herself, handcrafted by another friend and colleague, Tomas Söderholm, as late as the night before the party.

The vase later appeared in a photo report, after which inquiries began pouring into the design studio where Ami works about where the vase could be purchased. Ami describes how she had always liked Klong's collection and decided to contact us.

By now we all know that this turned out to be a successful meeting, and in 2012 Fanny was presented at the interior design fair Formex in Stockholm. It was so well received in fact that it won the Formex Formidable jury prize with the following motivation:"A sculptural object that captures our prevailing love of flowers and fascination with brass. With glimmering inspiration from Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), Fanny combines strictness and playfulness, innovation and forward-lookingness. A future classic, a stylized bouquet that does not require any flowers."

That was the tale of Fanny - or should we say fairy tale?

“I had long had the idea of separating what holds the water from what the flowers are arranged in. The inspiration came from my mother’s way of building her own vases out of various bowls and, for example, stones to create her fantastic flower arrangements.

When Fanny’s birthday approached, I got the final pieces of the puzzle for the design. It had to be large enough to fit on her coffee table, be a bit sixties-inspired (after all, we were both born in 1960), and it had to be both classic and original, just like Fanny. It was finished at the very last minute!"