Office and Commercial Workplace Vases and Planters
Empty corners are what make an office look unfinished, and they are the hardest part of a workplace to fix. Real plants need daylight and someone to water them, and most offices have neither to spare. The office vases and planters at Mikolia cover the pieces that solve it: tall metal floor vases that work empty or filled, and gold planter pots that turn a plain nursery pot into something worth looking at, from £19.99.
It sits within the wider office and commercial décor range alongside artificial office plants and trees and office shelf and desk décor, so a whole interior can be fitted out in one palette rather than assembled piece by piece.
How to style a commercial space
Most commercial interiors fail in the same two places: the corners are empty and the surfaces are cluttered. The fix is to work in the opposite order to instinct. Deal with height first, in the corners, using floor vases and planted trees. Then deal with surfaces, using far fewer pieces than feels right. A room with height in the corners can carry almost nothing on its counters and still look finished.
Keep the palette to two or three finishes across a whole floor. Gold reads warm and works against both light and dark schemes, black holds its outline against pale walls, and stone and marble effects add substance without adding colour. Six finishes across one site looks accidental; two looks specified. Our office décor styling guide works through a full fit out in order.
Floor vases for reception corners and lobbies
A floor vase does something a plant cannot: it adds height in a corner with no daylight, needs nothing from anyone, and works whether it is filled or left completely empty. That makes it the most reliable piece in a workplace, particularly in interior corridors, stairwell landings and lobbies set back from a window.
Height should follow the ceiling. The 107cm hammered gold vase and the 108cm black reeded vase are the two tallest pieces here and want a double height entrance or a stairwell, where a room can take a real vertical line. In a standard office the 86cm gold vase and the 88cm black reeded vase are easier to place, reading clearly across a room without reaching eye level.
Where floor clearance matters, footprint matters more than height. Both black reeded vases are 15cm square, the narrowest pieces in the collection, which lets them sit in a corridor or beside a desk without getting in the way. For lower spots, a console, a wide counter or the floor beside seating, the 62cm gold vase and the 61cm two tone vase do the same job below the sightline.
Choosing a finish for a commercial palette
Commercial interiors usually have their palette set already by flooring, furniture and branding, so décor works best staying neutral or picking up one existing accent. Antique gold suits schemes built around wood and brass and reads as premium at close range, which is why it works on a reception counter. Matte black suits chrome, glass and the greys of a technology or professional services fit out, and holds its outline against pale walls where a gold piece would blend in.
Where a scheme already uses both, the two tone pieces do the work of bridging them. The 71cm black and gold hammered vase and its shorter counterpart split cleanly between matte black and bright antique gold, and the hammered dimpling catches light differently against each, so the same texture reads twice in one piece. These suit breakout spaces and staff lounges, where an interior can carry more character than a boardroom would take.
Planter pots for office plants and trees
Most trees in our artificial office plants and trees collection arrive in a plain nursery pot. That is deliberate: it keeps the price down and lets you choose a planter that suits the interior rather than accepting whatever the manufacturer supplied. The planter is what makes the plant look bought rather than delivered.
Size the pot to the plant rather than to the space. The 24cm hammered gold planter and the 24cm engraved gold planter suit full height trees, because a tall tree in a narrow pot looks precarious even when it is perfectly stable. The 21cm hammered version and the 21cm engraved version suit smaller plants up to around a metre, a counter top piece, or a slimmer tree in a tight corner.
The two patterns suit different interiors. The hammered texture is contemporary and tactile and suits a modern fit out; the engraved leaf pattern is quieter and more decorative and sits better in a building with panelling, classical detailing or period features. All four are designed as cachepots, holding a plant in its existing nursery pot rather than being used for direct planting, so they can be moved between plants as a space changes.
Filling a vase, or leaving it empty
A tall metal vase is a sculptural object in its own right, and several of these are at their best with nothing in them at all. The reeded black vases in particular rely on the contrast between a heavily textured body and a smooth polished neck, which a full arrangement hides rather than improves.
Where a corner needs more width, tall stems from artificial flowers are the way to add it. The narrow openings on these vases suit bare branches, dried grasses and tall single stems rather than a wide bouquet, and the gold collar on the two tone pieces sits at the right height to frame them. Add sand or gravel to the base for stability before adding anything tall, and use a waterproof liner if you ever display fresh flowers, since standing water damages a metal interior.
Buying for multiple floors, sites or offices
Where a business is fitting out more than one space, repetition is an advantage rather than a limitation. The same vase on every floor makes a building feel coherent, and the same scheme across branches makes a chain feel like one brand. Because most pieces here come in two or three heights in a single finish, you can keep the finish constant and vary only the scale room by room.
It is also easier to reorder and quicker to apply. Pairing a repeated floor vase with the same planter and the same tree from artificial office plants and trees gives you a three item formula that can be applied to any new room in an afternoon, with office shelf and desk décor covering whatever the surfaces need.
Home offices and smaller workspaces
The same principles scale down. A single floor vase in the corner of a home office changes how a room reads on a video call more than anything on the desk itself, and it takes no working surface at all. A shorter piece beside a bookcase or under a window does the same job where a full height vase would be too much.
If the office shares a room with the rest of the house, choosing finishes that carry through from the living room keeps the two from looking like separate rooms bolted together. To browse more pieces for personal use and home décor, visit our vase collection and the wider accessories range at Mikolia.
Shop office vases and planters at Mikolia
Browse the full range of office vases and planters for receptions, lobbies, corridors, breakout spaces, hotels and commercial interiors. Pair them with artificial office plants and trees for greenery, add stems from artificial flowers, finish the surfaces with office shelf and desk décor, and see the wider office and commercial décor range or the full collection at Mikolia, with UK next day delivery.
