Acqua di Rosa

“ETTORE SOTTSASS ALWAYS SAYS THAT FOR HIM ARCHITECTURES ARE NOT ONLY MEANT 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 are six small single-flower vases, each produced in a limited series of 49 pieces, designed by Ettore Sottsass for the Metallia project of Serafino Zani. Each piece bears the designer’s signature on the base and is accompanied by a certificate of uniqueness and authenticity. 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 to it contemporaneity and emotion. So that contemporary pewter may continue to tell new stories in everyday life.

The six vases of the collection were made in 49 copies of each piece, signed by the author and accompanied by a certificate attesting to their authenticity.