True Colours
Mutina celebrates its tenth anniversary with two collections – Rombini, from a collaboration with French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Numi created by German designer Konstantin Grcic.
[Rombini Tile Collection] Declined in variations of the primary colors such as red and blue, the shape of the rhombus is shown through three elements in connection with each others: Carré, Losange and Triangle. The collection is actually an interior design project, based on elements that seem to arise from the floor and to carry on the wall covering. Rombini is available in two versions, through the usage of matching or contrasting grout.
Rombini is an alphabet of shapes and colors. The project consists of three models: tile, mosaic and relief elements. It is a collection that offers a complete solution, offering different combinations; rhythmic and colorful connections ranging from the tile to the mosaic, from the mosaic to the relief, from the relief to the tile.
[Numi Tile Collection] The collection consists of squared tiles – 30×30 cm and 60×60 cm – with different, partially glazed geometric forms, in six diverse colours. Numini, in a smaller size – 5×5 cm – are based on the same principle, but the pattern this time is created by a geometry’s embossment on the tile, around 0,6 mm of size, and not by the glaze. The six shapes are carved on an extra matt background similar to Numi soft cement. The mosaic pieces are assembled on sheets in 30×30 cm.
Ceramics! Working at my very first collection for Mutina, I’ve come to value the beauty of this simple and ancient material. A lump of clay that becomes floor, coating. The idea of matter as something composed of so many units, is really fundamental. A philosophical concept as much as a biological fact. The ceramic tile simply represents this: a small unit which, once multiplied, turns into something larger than the sum of its parts.
[3107 Chair – 60th Anniversary Editions] Republic of Fritz Hansen celebrates the 60 year anniversary of the Series 7™ with two special editions of the 3107 Chair designed by Arne Jacobsen. The chairs have been created both to stand out on their own, and to complete each other. The two chairs have been designed with a masculine or feminine view – being a dark blue shell with painted legs in a burnished look and a pale pink shell with gold-plated legs. While the two colours may contrast each other, they can also be combined, highlighting their significance and their complementarity. The two pieces are only available throughout 2015.
[Haze Series] Korean artist Wonmin Park presents the next stage in the series Haze at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. The usage of resin in this collection produces a surreal appearance reminiscent of seeing something without fixed contours.
I wanted to recreate the way that nature plays with light such as the phenomenon of rainbows and the prism caused by the morning sun’s reflection on a drop of dew.
In the painting process the artist begins with the mixing of primary colour pigments added to the moulds of the resin sections. A soft colouration is obtained within the slabs which hold their translucency.
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