Scatole Segrete

Limited Edition - design Ettore Sottsass

«I wanted to design boxes to be opened with care, lifting the lid slowly with two hands, as if the box could feel that I am being gentle with it and that I have no wish to mistreat it. Boxes made of precious woods in which to put things that are even a little secret: a special brush, a few little notebooks of special paper or, more simply, something I would like to remain secret. Perhaps love notes». Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass designed Scatole Segrete for Numa, in plywood: five small architectures that express a very personal vision of the value of things: that symbolic value that certain objects charged with meaning manage to take on when we use them for a very precise reason.

Rosalia, Agnese, Teresa, Zita and Agata are the names of the five wooden boxes offered in 99 numbered pieces. Five small architectures that express a very personal vision of the value of things: that symbolic value that certain objects charged with meaning manage to take on when we use them for a very precise reason.

Five extraordinary interpretations by Ettore Sottsass of a traditional material such as wood, in the strongly iconographic language that distinguishes the great designer.