{"id":5534,"date":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/catalogo\/uncategorized\/agnese"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","slug":"agnese","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/catalogo\/scatole-segrete-en\/agnese","title":{"rendered":"Agnese"},"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, worked in solid wood<\/li>\n<li>Rosewood, origin Madagascar<\/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<\/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, which becomes laborious especially for the rosewood, since the pattern of the grain must have a certain continuity across the various faces of the object.<\/li>\n<li>The birch plywood panel is veneered with 3 layers of rosewood, each 6\/10 mm thick.<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 parts follows; the horizontal joints are worked and joined by rabbeting, the vertical joints are made with internal wooden cores. Extreme care is needed in assembling the faces, which must have continuity in the pattern of the wood grain.<\/li>\n<li>The base and the knob are cut from solid maple and left to rest for several months to stabilise the wood further.<\/li>\n<li>They are painted by hand with blue aniline pigments.<\/li>\n<li>After a suitable time the surfaces are treated: they are sanded with sepia paper and the edges are rounded.<\/li>\n<li>A first coat of &#8220;base&#8221; is applied by hand with a brush to close the pores of the wood.<\/li>\n<li>The surfaces are sanded again by hand 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 layer of natural beeswax is applied by hand.<\/li>\n<li>The knob and the base are fixed by means of hidden cylindrical interlocking wooden pins.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NB- The working of the coloured parts poses particular handling problems, since the aniline pigment colour is particularly invasive. The working of the coloured parts therefore takes place at different times and in different spaces from the rest of the production.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plywood box cm 18x18x23h, limited edition of 99 pieces. Structure in birch plywood veneered with three layers of rosewood. Knob and base in forest linden. 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