In 2013 Italian designer Chiara Andreatti completed a set of porcelain tableware she says are inspired by the world of plants.
Her design process, which she describes as ancient, sounds simple: she cut fruits and vegetables, set these in powder blue ceramic pigment and uses the portions as stamps. She states the symbolic designs are “almost fossils” on the surface of the plates, bowls and cups.
Andreatti was born in Castelfranco Veneto in 1981 and she majored in industrial design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 2003. She attended a masters program at Domus and has since worked with designers such as Renato Montagner and Raffaella Mangiarotti. Since 2006 she’s worked as a designer for the Lissoni Associati design studio and has pursued freelance projects with a variety of companies.
Above image: Salad Ink tableware by Chiara Andreatti.
Chiara Andreatti’s Salad Ink plates bear the impressions of fruit, vegetables and plants.
Chiara Andreatti, designer.
here the link:
http://www.nonsansraison.com/WIP/product/pack-huit-assiettes-dessert-vegetal/
What a wonderful concept. Do you think this decorating technique will work on low fire clay bodies such as white low fire? Also, how about decorating with this technique on bowls?
Your work is beautiful.
Barry
I would love to see the actual tableware. I’m very fascinated with the vegetable fossil prints. Are they available for sale anywhere in the states? Marlys
I checked the designer’s site and looked around Google for a bit, but I didn’t find anything immediately. Her contact information, however, is listed on her web site.
– Bill
Hello,
I saw your comment just now, thanks were very welcome 🙂
The private collection was produced by NOn sans Raigon and is already available on the online shop.
The technique that I used in the prototype was replaced for the sake of industrialization with the decals.
Best Regards
Chiara
http://www.chiaraandreatti.com
here the link:
http://www.nonsansraison.com/WIP/product/pack-huit-assiettes-dessert-vegetal/