{"id":5536,"date":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/catalogo\/uncategorized\/teresa"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:06","slug":"teresa","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/catalogo\/scatole-segrete-en\/teresa","title":{"rendered":"Teresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00abI wanted to design boxes to be opened with care, lifting the lid slowly with both hands, as if the box could sense that I am being gentle with it and that I have no wish whatsoever to mistreat it. Boxes made of precious woods in which to put things that are even a little secret: a special brush, a few small 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 which certain objects charged with meaning can take on when we use them for a very specific 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 which certain objects charged with meaning can take on when we use them for a very specific 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>Materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zebrano from Africa, parts worked in solid wood<\/li>\n<li>Ebony from Indonesia, worked in solid wood<\/li>\n<li>Birch from Russia. Birch plywood made up of 7 layers of 20\/10 mm with crossed grain to make the wood stable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Production stages:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Production begins with a careful selection of the woods, to obtain a uniform effect of colour and grain pattern.<\/li>\n<li>The parts that make up the box are cut.<\/li>\n<li>Solid zebrano edges are fixed onto the profiles of the birch plywood faces.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Each part, inside and out, is then veneered with a layer of zebrano 20\/10 mm thick.<\/li>\n<li>The parts that make up the box are glued and fitted together. The horizontal joints are worked and joined by rebate, while the vertical ones are made with internal wooden cores.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The two knobs are made; the ebony is turned from solid wood after a careful selection of the trunk to be worked. The trunks are small and full of defects. About 70% is discarded to obtain blocks of solid wood suitable for working.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The knobs are left to rest for several months before their surfaces are worked further and they are fixed to the lid, to allow the wood to stabilise further.<\/li>\n<li>After a suitable time the surfaces of the box are worked with sandpaper and the edges are rounded.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A first coat of a &#8220;base&#8221; is applied by hand, with a brush, to close the pores of the wood.<\/li>\n<li>The surfaces are gone over again, by hand, with ever finer sandpaper.<\/li>\n<li>The stamping is carried out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Another coat of varnish is applied with a brush, to make the surface &#8220;silky&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>After suitable drying, a layer of natural beeswax is applied by hand.<\/li>\n<li>The knobs, which have undergone the same treatment as the surfaces of the box, are fixed to it by means of hidden cylindrical wooden dowels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NB. The working of the ebony parts requires great care, since the raw wood releases a black dust that penetrates the fibre of the other woods, irremediably staining them. Ebony must be worked on its own and kept separate from the other woods until after it has been varnished.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plywood box, cm 15x15x23.5h, limited edition of 99 pieces. Structure in birch plywood veneered with three layers of zebrano. Knob and base in solid black ebony. 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