Arca
Design: Andrea Anastasio
Sculpture by Andrea Anastasio made at the historic workshop Ceramica Gatti 1928 in Faenza exclusively for Visionnaire. The centrepiece, a unique piece in shape, color and size, is composed of a large number of zoomorphic shapes recovered from the workshop's archive and the result of its centenary decorative production which spans the different styles of the 20th century. The animals, modeled by hand in clay from a plaster cast and assembled during firing through the fusion of enamel, are characterized by the original "reflex" colouring, a technique developed at the end of the 1920s by the workshop, which gives the piece its exclusive bronze/green colour.
Andrea Anastasio
Andrea Anastasio was born in Rome in 1961. After completing his studies in philosophy, Andrea Anastasio embarked upon a cultural path that led him to cooperate on projects entailing the cataloguing of Islamic architecture in India, research on innovation in traditional craftsmanship techniques, partnerships with architectural practices, publishers and museums. Fascinated by the study of the poetics of conceptual art and its potential convergences with industrial design, he designs furniture and objects for Italian companies that play a leading role on the international scene. His research focuses on the manipulation of objects, consumer goods and domestic materials, to generate cross-contaminations of languages and meanings.