A 2009 graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, Lex Pott experiments with natural materials, pushing the limits of wood, stone, and metal. The Dutch designer’s first collaboration with Copenhagen-based &Tradition is True Colours: a series of vases that juxtapose polished metal with the matte, variegated hues of its oxidized state. This vase reveals a color combination that is organic and inherent to brass. The bipartite effect is created when the entire vase is oxidized, and one strip—at the...