of Calamine
I have read, listened, written, drawn, painted, photographed, visited… Everything can be more interesting if you remain curious, if you do not lose the desire to learn and experiment. I pause to observe the contrasts of colors, the different points of view of a shot, the sound of synonyms with which the same thing can be described, the harmony of a painting. A note can also be color, poetry is also melody, an image can scream more than one word. The expression: that's all... it's all here. (Editorial Director - Art Director)
To talk about myself I would use the English concept of Language Enthusiast, with its bad translation into Italian. Years of study, travel and authentic and pulsating passion for what lies beyond the border converge in this expression. I have an indiscriminate interest in any culture and any person with a story to tell. I remain with difficulty compressed in my dimension, I feel the continuous need to push myself further. I can't stand the innuendo, the half sentences and the boredom of waiting rooms. Certainly communicative, analytical, I split reality into a thousand pieces and then reassemble it. I think and write in 4 languages, which I love all of them, because inside they sing me a beautiful song. (Editor - Translator).
What unites Piacentini's Architecture with Greenaway's Cinema, Munari's Design with Tiepolo's painting and Kandiskij's studies? What unites the election posters with the paper tickets we used for the tram? For visual culture, the challenge of the third millennium lies in seeing the red thread that binds each of its branches to tell the image and aesthetics. I would like to do it through a passion that comes from the tradition of classic cinema. After all, what is the history of Design if not the cerebral attempt to give a soul to matter, to plagiarize the form according to its most hidden meaning and all to be revealed? (Editor - Reporter)
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Calamine has been the best-selling PLANIUM metal of recent years and from an aesthetic point of view it is easy to understand the reasons. Architects and others - in general those interested in Interior Design - are looking for this ferritic material, the result of oxidation due to its variable and unpredictable color scheme which makes it unique on the market.
How many and what are the different colors that this "mysterious" material includes in its many and unpredictable shades?
Grey. Anthracite or Light Shades
One of the dominant colors in Calamine is Anthracite, a particular type of gray with a dark and leady hue that takes its name from a coal. In addition to the Pantone experts, it is a color appreciated in the world of fashion because of the tailored men's suits, ideal for formal occasions. More rarely, however, this metal also has streaks of light gray, silvery and shiny, almost reflective, which are very reminiscent of stainless steel: a gray tending to Gainsboro and Platinum.
Air Force Blue
Blue was the color that Pantone Institute had declared a trend just a couple of years ago, and we all remember how much transversality this color has that infuses stability and serenity. Calamine certainly does not exempt itself from containing it. The shade of Blue that belongs to this metal is Air Force Blue, which takes its name from the historic color of the uniforms of aviators, including those of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force, and which has a gray undertone. In its darker sections the saturation level reaches Midnight Blue and Prussian Blue.
Magenta Red
Calamine never ceases to amaze and surprise: among the cold and "nocturnal" tones that play between the grays and blues, there is also room for a very particular primary color, Magenta Red, which in this metal is not it manifests with "strength" but with subtlety, by nuances, almost to accompany it; the name of this color is presumably due to the historic battle.
Light Blue and Mid-Blue (“Sugar-paper Blue”)
More than one shade of Blue is contained in Calamine, which not only includes the dark ones: in the overall view of the slab, in fact, the “Sugar-paper” Blue color is also evident, which is a Mid-Blue, almost a Light-Blue in which it is seen in filigree the coldness of some grays and which takes its name from the color of the wrapping papers for tobacco and sugar, that were "blued" as early as the 1600s, even if the term was born in 1892. It was the first color for packaging, therefore also one of the first to be the protagonist in what we now call "marketing". In Europe it has had a successful use in fashion since the 50s of the twentieth century, and has recently come back into vogue also for Interior Design. Along with this, other shades of Blue with a slightly "marine" character accompany this oxide, such as a desaturated Indigo or Bluebottle.
19 novembre 2024 - by La Redazione TBlog
