Our trek through last week’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile continues as CFile picks some of the newest ceramic creations worthy of your notice. This design week has turned out interesting work in the fields of food and home furnishings. In this post we discuss ceramics that facilitate sharing, a conscious design flaw that promotes functionality, lighting and plates that stare back at you.
Descriptions of the individual projects are included with the photographs below.
Above image: Cheburashka by Luca Nichetto, collaboration with Lera Moiseeva for Dymov Ceramics.
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Levante, vessels by designer Alessandro Zambelli explore the way dysfunction can benefit design. These off-kilter bowls have found a new stability in the form of corks which prop them up. The designer states that this is a reference to memories of the Mediterranean countryside, where locals sometimes use corks to mend everyday objects.
Cheburashka is by designer Luca Nichetto, in collaboration with Lera Moiseeva for Dymov Ceramic, which produces ceramic objects with an ancient smoke-fired technique. The design’s purpose is to facilitate meal-sharing. The set is of one large container which has handles to make carrying easier and a lid which reverses into a serving spoon. Two smaller bowls accompany the set, which can be stacked for easy storage. Hand-engraved lines on the surface resemble a net which references Cheburashka, an ancient Russian word for floats which support fishing nets and a Soviet Union-era children’s literature character who was an animal with large ears.
Facing Food is by designer Roel Vandebeek for Serax. These bone china dishes play on the boundary of art and design, according to Vandebeek. Their basic forms are imperfect and are each enhanced by a tiny speck of an eye.
Ovo Oil Lamp and Evoluzione Vegetale Bocca Fase are by 24-year-old Italian potter Simone Guida. Guida recently did an interview with Swide in which he said he’s inspired by nature, particularly vegetable gardens. He said he’s strongly drawn to materials which have a strong connection with nature. He makes soft ceramic forms which he fires in a hand-made kiln.
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