Workbench is an experimental collaboration between designers Alberto Fabbian and Amabile Paola that blends wicker and clay traditions. The project was developed while the pair was working in contact with local wicker and clay craftsmen. Through the project, the collaborators dealt with concepts such as wood’s flexibility versus ceramic’s rigidity, weaving and kneading, drying and firing. They maintain that the materials complement each other and the end result is a “contamination” between two separate realms. “Around the table we can discuss, confront each other, share thoughts and ideas: Workbench is a table where materials processing methods are the exchanged words,” they state of the project.
Fabbian and Amabile are designers based in Northern Italy who share an interest in creating projects as containers of knowledge through a continuous dialogue with different identities holding human, cultural, and territorial values. Their purpose is to create positive impacts by transferring contents that can be shared in several forms, whether they be objects, situations, or food for thought. Recently, they participated in Milan Design Week 2013 and Dutch Design Week 2013 and they have been featured in many international design publications.
Above image: Objects from Workbench, a project by designers Alberto Fabbian and Amabile Paola. Photographs by Paola.
Objects from Workbench, a project by designers Alberto Fabbian and Amabile Paola. Photographs by Paola.
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