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Rug collection ‘inventory’ by Faye Toogood for CC-Taps
cc-tapis is an Italian company which produces contemporary hand-knotted rugs which are created in Nepal by expert Tibetan artisans.
The company was founded by Nelcya and Fabrizio Cantoni in France who have been producing hand-knotted rugs in Nepal for over 17 years. In 2011 cc-tapis moved to Milan where the company is now based and a team of designers innovate through a new approach to traditional methods.
A strong respect for the materials and for the culture of this ancient craft is reflected in the company’s eco-friendly approach to every step of production, ranging from the hand spinning of the softest Himalayan wool to the use of purified rainwater for the washing of the final products, making each one of cc-tapis rugs unique.
Far from mass production, cc-tapis aims to offer a tailored service to those who understand and enjoy a high-end product, where a three month production time contains a story of ageless culture.
The collection is based on the concept of sedimentation and Mediterranean craft traditions.
Different kind of lavas, of terracotta, and of clays, chromatically matching with each other, combine and mix, enriching and softening the black base of recycled ceramics on which they deposit, making it timidly emerge on the surface.
Tierras is revisited tradition, a project which develops around the concept of sedimentation and the long Mediterranean artisan memories, elements which come out from earth, marked by the hand of man and by time passing.
The collection is realized in homogeneous porcelain stoneware, produced with the innovative continua technology: a modern productive system based on the dry processing of the ceramic powders. The result is a very solid substance, characterized by a palette of very intense, deep, earthy and natural colors, saturated by the black base.
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Las Pozas, the fantastical sculpture garden of British aristocrat Edward James—an improbable architectural folly begun at Xilitla, in the wilds of Mexico, in 1949—remains a Surrealist’s paradise
“Mount Etna is a mine without miners – it is excavating itself to expose its raw materials.”
Studio Formafantasma, in collaboration with Gallery Libby Sellers, present ‘De Natura Fossilium’ –
an investigation into the culture of lava in the Mount Etna and Stromboli regions of Sicily, two of the last active volcanoes in Europe.
www.formafantasma.com
Photo Credit: Luisa Zanzani
Mythical retreat has got a hand made feeling, combined with clear lines. It’s sober furnished, but comfortable and made of rich natural materials.
Senso colour: wandering green
Senso colour: blush pink
Senso colour: radiant blue
‘Take your time’
Everything good that’s been discovered, created or innovated took time. Certain historical landscapes carry a mythical atmospere that’s alomost enlighting. No impulse, just water and wind. These landscapes makes you feel small.
When we travel we like to visit places where we can retreat and create. Like for example an artist in residence. The way we live and work changes and we are more capable of creating an environment in which we can flourish the most.
Our home has a hand made feeling, combined with clear lines. It’s sober furnished, but comfortable and made of rich natural materials.
While there’s no official equivalent of Slow Food in the design world, there will always be something particularly nice about projects that take the same traditionally made, locally focused approach — especially when the results have as contemporary an aesthetic as Rodrigo Bravo’s new Monolith Series. The creative director of the Santiago, Chile–based studio that shares his last name, Bravo embarked on the project in 2015, wanting to find a way to highlight “production methods, technologies, and materials taken from Chilean geography,” he says. He then spent two solid years researching a stone native to northern Chile, making contact with a stone-turning artisan there, developing a rapport with him, sketching more than 100 drawings of vessels they could create together, and ultimately executing 80 of them.
The 80 vessels — cups, vases, lidded boxes, small bowls — are all carved from single chunks of Combarbalita, “a rock made from volcanic compositions that has only been found in Chile, and that integrates heterogeneous amounts of kaolinite, natroalunite, silica, and hemanite, in addition to some minerals represented in copper and silver oxides,” Bravo explains. All those minerals give the stone particularly striking — and particularly variable — striations and patterns that he and the artisan leveraged to give each individual piece a strong visual character. See for yourself below.
text by Monica Khemsurov via Sight Unseen
An Exhibition at Modern Times
Holm delights audiences with her new series of Iceland’s river deltas, documenting their movement of minerals through streams and rivers leading out to sea.
Mineral Matter, the new photographic series by Brooke Holm, explores the power and fragility of nature through Iceland’s dynamic river deltas and seas. Documenting the movement of volcanic ash, sediment, and colorful minerals, which collect and flow with the tide of glacier water in a powerful display of nature’s complexity, Brooke delivers a compelling series of the landscape.
Photographed entirely from above, she captures recent human relics such as vehicle tracks and footsteps, which weave in and out of frame. “In this terribly beautiful yet forbidding landscape where the forces of nature are profound, the limits of humanity’s dominion over the environment are brought into question,” Brooke explains. Brooke’s passion for nature and her strong desire to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment is the driving force behind her evocative and significant photographic practice.
www.brookeholm.com
www.moderntimes.com
Classical-Meets-Contemporary Ceramics by Nicolette Johnson
It’s not every day that we make a discovery on the level of Nicolette Johnson, when some random Instagram rabbit hole leads us to a trove so vast we can hardly believe no one had tipped us off to it sooner (mental note to start reading the Design Files more carefully). But that’s exactly what happened last month, when we stumbled onto an image of Johnson’s vases and found ourselves practically hyperventilating — not just over the works themselves, but the fact that the young Brisbane-based talent only started working with ceramics at all less than two years ago, after having forged a burgeoning career as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Hence why the images below — primarily depicting her most recent creations, which merge contemporary geometries with overtly classical forms and finishes — are practically works of art in and of themselves. There are tons more where they came from; visit Johnson’s website or follow her on Instagram to see why we fell so hard.
Text by Monica Khemsurov via Sight Unseen
www.nicolettejohnsonceramics.com
