{"id":5608,"date":"2018-05-18T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/catalogo\/uncategorized\/zita"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:33:18","slug":"scatola-segreta-zita","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/catalogo\/scatole-segrete-en\/scatola-segreta-zita","title":{"rendered":"Zita"},"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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maple from Europe, worked in solid wood<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Production stages:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Production of the box begins with a careful selection of the solid maple wood, to obtain a uniform effect of colour and grain pattern.<\/li>\n<li>The solid maple is then hollowed out by hand according to the design.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Once the various faces and the bottom part have been obtained, the parts are glued and fitted together; the horizontal parts are worked and joined by rebate; the vertical joints are made with internal wooden cores.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The lid of the box is hollowed out from the solid wood to create the closing rebate; the protruding slats are fixed one by one to the lid by means of hidden internal wooden cores.<\/li>\n<li>After a suitable time the surfaces are worked by hand with sandpaper and the edges are rounded.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The box is coloured by hand with yellow aniline pigments.<\/li>\n<li>A first coat of a &#8220;base&#8221; is then applied by hand, with a brush, to close the pores of the wood.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The surfaces are gone over again, by hand, to smooth them with ever finer sandpaper.<\/li>\n<li>The stamping is carried out.<\/li>\n<li>Another coat of varnish is applied with a brush, to make the surfaces &#8220;silky&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>After suitable drying, a layer of natural beeswax is applied by hand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NB. 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