Tavole
Limited Edition - design Ettore Sottsass
Tavole
«Glass is a crazy material, very mysterious, transparent, fragile. Behind glass there is, needless to say, a universe of centuries-old experience. On the occasion of one of the first Triennales, after the war, I was asked to make a glass piece and I remember that back then we made balls with a Scottish plaid design, that is, light and dark stripes that interwove. It was my first experience of this activity. Glass, like ceramics for that matter, has another strange quality: it goes into the fire and you do not know what goes in. Then suddenly out comes a pure object because it has been burned by the fire, an object of total purity, of total physical intangibility. Like a vision. You are truly drawn into this process of glass. Glass is a spectacle». Ettore Sottsass
The fourth collection of NUMA consists of six pieces, six centrepieces that tell us of the joy and pleasure of conceiving objects that will accompany us in our daily gestures and rituals, becoming a happy part of our everyday life.
Tavole are six large limited-edition centrepieces, in pewter or pewter and blown glass “designed to give meaning to the table and make it more magical and ritual”
The design journey of Ettore Sottsass leads us, in 2004, to the meeting of the lightness and colour of Murano glass with the strong architectural construction of the pewter parts. The transparency of the glass does not hide the structure of the metal; it discreetly contains and protects the good fruits and offers them to our desire as a precious possession.
Extraordinary interpretations by Ettore Sottsass of traditional materials, in the strongly iconic language that distinguishes the great designer.
