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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Metal-morphosis continues: the collection started with Mavi and Mavi Calypso a few years ago is now enriched with a new series. Thetis was born. Like its predecessors, it always uses the oxidation of metal for its artistic creations. We know that from this process indefinite chromatic shades are obtained from which non-repeatable and therefore unique shapes arise, that make each slab a collector's item to furnish interiors.
Why Thetis? This name evokes Greek mythology and indicates two female characters: the most beautiful of the Nereids, mother of Achilles and daughter of Nereus and Doris, and a titanide, daughter of Uranus and Gea, sister and wife of Oceanus. The etymology of this name could be lost in the Akkadian language and indicate the sea, but time offers us today a veil of uncertainty and everything is lost in mystery.
And as we have already seen in past collections, here too there is a very strong visual link between the oxidations of the metal and the colors of the ocean or of the emerged lands, almost as if these plates wanted to tell of mappings and cartographies, with unexpected and random contours that alternate water colors to more earthy ones.
In the Thetis collection the protagonist is Brass: already luminous and iridescent in itself, this material "releases" a great potential of colours, from the brightest shades of gold to the more opaque ones of pastel yellow, straw, saffron and others. Yellow is clearly predominant in the works, and in some plates it borders on darker tones of ocher and fawn. Blue, then, is the second color whose presence we perceive most, typical of oxidized brass: shades ranging from cornflower to light blue, from cyan to cobalt, from turquoise to aqua green.
The variants of the Thetis series:
- Thetis Petite: can be hung in any context using the supplied hanging system. It is, as the name says, the smallest and most "agile" version, for a touch of lightness in interior design that can also be combined with other decorative elements, in both private and public spaces. It is found in the Freestyle and Deco versions and has a square format: 45x45 cm. Each Thétis Petite can be purchased individually or in the duo or trio version, which involves the assembly of two or three slabs.
- Thetis Tide: also available in the Freestyle and Deco version, it is the same size and measurement as the Mavi Calypso (48L x 197h cm) and therefore has a more classic cut, as a decorative panel that develops vertically, with a rectangular shape that gives a sense of momentum and height to the wall.
