Design: Samuele Mazza
Artistic ceramic butterfly, hand-shaped and finished in white with gold or platinum lustres applied by brush and third-fired. Metal wire antennae are inserted while the clay is still wet for a delicate handcrafted touch.
L 25 × W 25 cm
L 9 7/8" × W 9 7/8"
His background has roots in his beloved, deep Sicily of Palma di Montechiaro, where triumphant baroque. Catholicism and unexpected reminiscences of Jewish and oriental culture form a unique environment. Later, his grounding was in the swinging Florence of the '80s, which was a workshop of creative elaborations, an open space for new researches and experimentations in the fields of culture, music and fashion. After that he landed at the current bipolarity of Milan-New York axis.