Tredicivasi

«When I read these words that Mario Botta had written for the presentation of the vases he designed, I understood that I could find in him the harmony I was looking for in order to realise, in pewter, the works he had designed. The collection designed by Mario Botta is made up of 13 vases, 6 of which are now being put into production by Numa in a limited run of 33 pieces. Each vase is obtained from cast pewter sheets, shaped and soldered by hand. It is finished by hand with brushing and polishing operations. The thirteen vases we now present are presences of extraordinary communicative power, unmistakable examples of the sign and poetics of Mario Botta; they are the representation of the work of Alfredo Marinoni, a true Master in the working of pewter, with whom I have shared the whole Numa journey, expressed through the material that he works with unmatched mastery. Tredicivasi is the ever more fascinating continuation of the Numa journey and project». Roberto Zani

Tredicivasi is a collection of large pewter vases, designed by Mario Botta with multiple arms as a “metaphor of the tree“. Thirteen table architectures whose geometries are expressed very well by pewter, an ancient material of great plastic strength. A material that Numa has in these years brought back to contemporaneity, entrusting its manufacture to Alfredo Marinoni, a master in the working of pewter, which for these vases is cast in sheets and subsequently finished by hand. 

Unmistakable examples of the sign and poetics of Mario Botta, these thirteen vases present themselves as presences of extraordinary communicative power in the contemporary home, according to an idea of dwelling tied to the quality of the objects that inhabit it, particularly dear to the Numa project.