{"id":5494,"date":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/catalogo\/uncategorized\/agata"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:09:04","slug":"agata","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/catalogo\/scatole-segrete-en\/agata","title":{"rendered":"Agata"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00abI wanted to design boxes to be opened taking care to lift the lid slowly with two hands, as if the box could feel that I am gentle with it and that I do not in the least want to mistreat it. Boxes made of precious woods in which to put things that are even a little secret: a special brush, a few notebooks of special paper or, more simply, something I would like to remain secret. Perhaps love notes\u00bb. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ettore Sottsass <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ettore Sottsass designed for Numa <strong>Scatole Segrete<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosalia<\/strong>, <strong>Agnese<\/strong>, <strong>Teresa<\/strong>, <strong>Zita<\/strong> and <strong>Agata<\/strong> 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 this great designer.<\/p>\n<p>Material:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maple, origin Europe<\/li>\n<li>Ebony, origin Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>Birch, origin Russia. Birch plywood made up of 7 layers of 20\/10 mm with cross grain to make the wood stable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manufacturing stages:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Production begins with a careful selection of the woods in order to discard defective parts and to obtain a homogeneous effect of colour and of wood grain pattern<\/li>\n<li>The birch plywood panel (made up of 7 layers of 20\/10 mm, with cross grain to make the wood stable) is veneered on both faces, on one side with maple and on the other with alternating bands of ebony and maple. The ebony is applied in a series of 3 layers of 6\/10 mm each and the maple in one layer of 20\/10 mm. This thickness allows the surfaces to be sanded and the edges to be rounded.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The parts that make up the box are then cut.<\/li>\n<li>Gluing and jointing of the various parts follows. The horizontal joints are worked and joined by rabbeting; the vertical joints are made with hidden internal wooden cores.<\/li>\n<li>After a suitable time the surfaces are treated: they are worked with sepia paper and the edges are rounded.<\/li>\n<li>A first coat of &#8220;base&#8221; is applied with a brush to close the pores of the wood.<\/li>\n<li>The surfaces are sanded again with ever finer sepia papers.<\/li>\n<li>The stamping follows.<\/li>\n<li>Another coat of varnish is applied with a brush to make the surface \u201csilky\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>After adequate drying a natural layer of beeswax is applied by hand to the internal and external surfaces.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NB: The working of the ebony parts requires great care, since when raw they release a black dust that penetrates the fibre of the other woods, irremediably staining them. All the parts of this box, before being assembled, are left to rest for several months, so as to make the wood more stable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plywood box cm18x18x18,5h, limited edition of 99 pieces. Structure in birch plywood externally veneered in ebony and maple. 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