Just For Flowers
Limited Edition - design Ettore Sottsass
Just For Flowers
«Ettore Sottsass always says that for him architectures do not serve only to enclose a space: they continue "outside", they touch the external space, they permeate it. He also says that the Architecture of things, its constructive structure, must be something unequivocal, and it is precisely this unequivocal quality of architecture that allows matter to speak. It allows it to become magic, consolation, pleasure». Roberto Zani
“Just for Flowers, from 2001, is the first collection by NUMA entirely designed by Ettore Sottsass.
Just for flowers are six small single-stem vases, each produced in a limited series of 49 pieces, designed by Ettore Sottsass for the project Metallia by Serafino Zani. Six small pewter architectures: fragments of walls arranged to delimit hollow volumes, small undulating walls and slender cylinders that support one another in unstable balances, producing repeated plays of light and shadow.
Basic volumes, deliberately incomplete, which give this ancient material new chromatic accents, restoring contemporaneity and emotion to it. So that contemporary pewter may continue to tell new stories in everyday life.
The six vases of the collection were made in 49 pieces for each model, signed by the author and accompanied by a certificate attesting to their authenticity. An important core of objects that immediately drew the attention of the art-collecting public.
Enriching the earlier collection by Serafino Zani, the Metallia Project, Just for flowers traced the line of research that Serafino Zani intended to follow, exploring the possibilities that arise from the encounter between designers and artisan know-how, to produce new, ancient materials.
