The vase on an oak desk next to a keyboard and a white mug, one pink cosmos standing out of the top of the palm

Synthwave Palm Bud Vase

A black palm against a striped amber sun, standing on a grid that glows after dark. It holds one to three stems.

The whole sunset

A grid running to the horizon, a striped sun sinking into it, one palm in front. That poster, made solid and 8.7 in tall.

A sun with slats

The sun stands behind the palm, 4.9 in across, cut into the stripes every synthwave sun has. Light comes through it in bars.

The grid underfoot

The black base is 3.5 in across, and the raised green grid on top is the floor the sun sets into. It is also the part that glows.

Ringed trunk, 6 fronds

The trunk climbs in rings from a swollen, curving foot. Up top, 2 fronds reach up and 4 arc out low.

Water lives in the tube

A 25 × 150 mm test tube drops straight down the trunk. Fill it, add a stem, lift it out to rinse.

Lights out

The room lights went out and nothing here is plugged in. The grid gives back the light it soaked up.

Up close

8.7 in tall on a 3.5 in base, it takes the corner of a desk, a shelf or a nightstand, and holds one to three slim stems.

The vase on a walnut shelf beside a small succulent, a stem of purple statice in the tube
On a living-room shelf with one stem of purple statice.
Looking down into the crown: six black fronds around the open mouth of the clear test tube
The crown from above. The tube's mouth sits right in the middle of the fronds.
Close on the foot: stacked black rings of the trunk rising out of the green grid on the black base
The trunk's rings and the green grid it stands in.
The vase on a white bedside table in morning light with two stems of dried bunny-tail grass
By the bed with two stems of dried bunny-tail grass.
The same bedside table with the lights off: only the grid on the base glows pale green
Same table, lights off. Only the grid is lit.

The water never touches the palm.

Inside the trunk is a straight bore for a 25 × 150 mm test tube. It sits 5.7 in deep, with its lip just above the crown, so you fill it and add a stem without the water reaching the print.

When the water needs changing, lift the tube out by the lip, rinse it and drop it back. The trunk around it is a second wall: a drip stays inside.

It is a standard test tube size, so a spare of the same size drops straight in.

Cut through the vase: the test tube sits inside the trunk's bore, its lip just above the crown lip above the crown 25 × 150 mm test tube trunk wall 5.7 in deep
The clear test tube lifted halfway out of the top of the palm trunk
Lifted out by its lip, ready to rinse.

Synthwave Palm Bud Vase

One palm, 6 fronds, one striped sun, and a grid that glows.

1
black base with a raised glow-in-the-dark grid
1
ringed palm trunk with a curving foot and a bore for the tube
1
translucent amber sun, cut into stripes
6
black fronds, 2 high and 4 low
Size
6.7 × 5.9 × 8.7 in (W × D × H)
Base
3.5 in across
Weight
6.3 oz
Made from
PLA
Holds
one to three stems
Water
in a 25 × 150 mm test tube inside the trunk
Glows
the base grid, after time under a lamp or daylight
The vase straight on: the palm in front of the striped orange sun, the green grid at its foot

Good to know

Does the water touch the printed palm?

No. The water stays in a 25 × 150 mm test tube that drops into the trunk, and the trunk around it is a second wall.

How does the grid glow?

The grid on the base is glow-in-the-dark. It charges under a lamp or in daylight and gives that light back once the room goes dark. There are no batteries, no bulbs and no switch.

How many flowers does it hold?

It holds one to three slim stems, standing in the test tube at the top of the trunk.

What is it made of?

PLA: black for the base, trunk and fronds, translucent amber for the sun, and a glow-in-the-dark green for the grid.

How do I clean it?

Lift the test tube out by its lip, rinse it and drop it back in. The water never sits in the palm, so the tube is the only part that needs washing.