09-02-2017

New design collection - Cocci Cantori

 

A collection of centrepieces that relates a travel into the past: the history, the tradition and the peculiar productive expertise of Tuscany with its highly emotional craft skills. The narration of Mangani Porcellane, a Florentine historical company passed down from generation to generation, unfolding stories of precious decorations. A veritable travel that projects itself into the future with a new experience dedicated to a “veiled transmission” of the tradition, an overturn of historical values for a new transposition, with new functions, into contemporary objects capable to reach the future thanks to new alternative uses. The memory is not lost, instead is strengthened in new unusual objects, powerful and symbolical of a period that is hardly placeable nowadays.

Cocci Cantori is made of internally glazed porcelain, fired at 1,300 °C (big fire), decorated with a 24k gold decalcomania fired at 750 °C (third fire). The product is then sectioned. The usual 3D decoration part is on the outside, with a dull white finish. Inside, the use is altered, showing the memory, the signs of a coded past which are part of our history, the Italian one.

Massimo Bani Translator
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