Tadao Ando, 1995 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, designed the present set of three vases for Venini on the occasion of the firm's 90th anniversary. His first design for Venini, the three torqued columns, based on inverted isosceles triangles, combine to form a discrete sculptural work. Each vase is hand-finished in one of three wheel cutting techniques- rosetta, ghiaccio, velato- applied to the surface to create variant textures. This is the first design object that Ando ever produced.