Milo Vase by Studio Job

Milo reinterprets the Venus de Milo and gives it a domestic purpose. The vase is a half-bust in gilded porcelain, open at the top to hold stems; the umbrella stand is the same body enlarged, molded in glossy white fiberglass and hollowed out to the base. The drapery, the twist of the shoulders, and the broken arms of the antique statue are kept as they are: it is the function, not the form, that Studio Job shifts. Seletti includes both pieces in the Blow collection, of which they constitute the statuary side.

Why a Venus

Seletti presents the piece as "the statuary beauty of the Venus de Milo reinterpreted and enriched by the pop soul of Blow." The process is constant for Studio Job: take an image that everyone recognizes, change not a single line of it, and only modify its purpose.