“SET IN CONCRETE” - DROOG DESIGN 2008 “AUTARCHY” - 2010
“AUTARKY” IS AN INSTALLATION THAT PROPOSES AN AUTONOMOUS WAY OF PRODUCING GOODS AND OUTLINES A HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO WHERE A COMMUNITY IS EMBRACING A SERENE AND SELF INFLICTED EMBARGO WHERE NATURE IS PERSONALLY CULTIVATED, HARVESTED AND PROCESSED, TO FEED AND MAKE TOOLS TO SERVE HUMAN NECESSITIES.
 
 
“COLONNA” - 2007 COLONNA IS COMPOSED BY A NECKLACE MADE OF BONE CHINA PORCELAIN, A TAIL OF HORSEHAIR AND A BOOK COFFER DIVIDED IN FOUR CHAPTERS: THE RESEARCH, THE SHAPE, THE COMPONENTS, THE OBJECT... HIDDEN COLLECTION -CLOCK AND TOOLS DROOG DESIGN 2009 “BAKED” - 2009BAKED IT IS ISPIRED BY A SICILIAN FOLK EVENT IN SALEMI, WHERE A FLOUR BASED MATERIAL IS USED TO CREATE ARCHITECTURAL DECORATIONS. THE PROJECT IS A HOMAGE TO BREAD AND FLOUR AND TO THE CRAFTSMANSHIP OF BAKING AND COOKING...
JUL 2010 - MOULDING TRADITION AND AUTARCHY FEATURED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE BY ALICE RAWSTHORN READ IT HERE! DIC.2010 - MOULDING TRADITION AND AUTARCHY, THE NEW ITALIAN DESIGN, TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM MILANO, ISTANBUL Nov.2010 - New installation - Autarchy, Abu Dhabi Art, United ARAB EMIRATES Nov.2010 - MoUlding Tradition, Saint Etienne Biennale, France Oct.2010 - Autarchy, Plart Foundation, Naples Oct.2010 - Autarchy, Sotheby’s, London Oct.2010 - Autarchy, Lodz Design festival, Poland Oct.2010 - New project, Vienna design week, Vienna Sept.2010 - Autarchy, MOSS GALLERY, NEW YORK Sept.2010 - Autarchy, Inside Design Amsterdam Sept.2010 - Autarchy, Archaic Shelter, Maison and Object, Paris JUN. 2010 - HIDDEN COLLECTION,DROOG, DESIGN BASELhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/arts/26iht-DESIGN26.html?_r=1 shapeimage_9_link_0
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VISIT “BAKED”...MORE NEWS AND EXHIBITIONS... INTRUDING ON THE STANDARD PRODUCTION METHOD, FORMAFANTASMA INTRODUCES UNEXPECTED MEANING AND CRAFT INTO A MASS PRODUCED GOOD...VISIT “HIDDEN COLLECTION”... “SET IN CONCRETE” IS COMPOSED BY A CONCRETE PEDESTAL OF 300 KG, A TEAPOT AND TWO CUPS OUT OF PRODUCTION FROM THE ROYAL MAASTRICHT SPHINX COMPANY, FOUR PLATES, ALL TRAPPED IN CONCRETE PEDESTALS...VISIT “SET IN CONCRETE”... VISIT “COLONNA”...“RAPSODIA” - 2006
"Rapsodia " is a spontaneous graphic account and it is composed by a book, a lamp, and two fonts. This experiment, inverts the normal creative process of storyboard, plot and transcription...
 
VISIT “RAPSODIA”... “MOULDING TRADITION” - 2009
CALTAGIRONE IS A SMALL CITY IN SICILY, FAMOUS FOR ITS CERAMIC AND ITS PURPORTED LOCAL TRADITION. THREE HUNDRED CRAFTSMEN ARE WORKING IN THE CITY.
IN CALTAGIRONE CRAFT IT IS NOT RARE...
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