The Sicilian Vase and Decorative Accents: The Details That Make a Home
You can have the perfect furniture and still a home that looks like a showroom — correct, but cold. What warms it are the decorative accents: a vase, a bowl, a box, an object that serves no purpose but says everything. A Sicilian vase, with its bright colours and hand-painted motifs, is exactly the kind of detail that turns a furnished room into a lived-in one.
Why small objects matter
Furniture gives a home its structure; accents give it its soul. They are the signs that someone with taste, with stories, with places seen, lives there. An object brought from elsewhere, a piece of old ceramic, an inherited vase — all add layers of personality that no furniture, however expensive, can create on its own. They are the punctuation of a room.
The tradition of Sicilian ceramics
Sicilian ceramics are a celebration of colour. Lemon yellows, sea blues, olive greens and hand-painted motifs — flowers, fruit, faces — make them unmistakable. Each piece carries the trace of the hand that painted it, so none is identical. A Sicilian vase in a sober room is like a ray of Mediterranean sun brought indoors.
How to style vases and accents
The golden rule: group in odd numbers and at different heights. Three objects of varying sizes look more natural than two identical ones. A tall vase anchors, two small ones complete it. Do not fill every surface — let the furniture breathe between accents. And a vase need not always be filled with flowers; empty, with its beautiful form, it is often enough.
How to choose quality
With ceramics, look at the weight and the finish of the glaze — a good piece is dense, with a deep, even sheen, without bubbles or scratches. With hand painting, look for the small irregularities that prove the human hand. Quality is felt when you lift the object: it weighs something, it is made, not cast in a hurry.
Where to put them
A vase looks good on a console in the hallway, on a dining table or on a buffet. Small accents live on a vitrine, on the bookcase shelves or on the coffee table. Discover vases and decorative objects in the miscellaneous category — they are the finishing touch that ties the whole room together.
Every vase and decorative object in our collection is a unique piece, with its own painting and form. Discover them in the miscellaneous category and in the rest of our catalogue, then come and see them at the Martello showroom in Nimoreni, Ialoveni. We deliver throughout Moldova and Romania.