Xavier Mañosa for Marset

Presented by Marset at Euroluce 2013, the Scotch Club collection of ceramic lamps is the fruit of a joint creative process that combines digital technology with craft production.

Born 1981 in Barcelona in 1981, Xavier Mañosa comes from a family of ceramists, and in a certain sense, follows family tradition: after five years away from home in Berlin, he started using the family workshop to shape his designs. Then, four years ago, he decided to return to Barcelona and work in the family business, producing his own designs and collaborating with several companies, including Marset.

 

This led him to question the intrinsic implications of a craftsman venturing into the world of industrial production. “Signs in single pieces are like birthmarks that bring special character to a product”, he explains upon our meeting at the Marset stand at Euroluce, “but the manufacturing world does not always appreciate the value of the craft process. The uniqueness it lends the product is often seen as a flaw”, Mañosa continues, “but, in this case, the company was able to grasp its essence and communicate it to others.”

Xavier Mañosa per Marset
Installation view at the Marset booth realised by Xavier Mañosa for Euroluce 2013.

The production process behind the Scotch Club collection of suspension lamps, presented at Euroluce 2013, is particularly complex: a programmatic mix of digital design and the craft nature of ceramic manufacture.

 

Inspired by Scotch Club, Europe’s first discothèque (founded in Aachen, Germany in 1959), the ceramic lamp diffuser is a miniature version of a disco ball with 72 facets. Xavier Mañosa’s skill as a ceramist had to be coupled with Berlin-based Mashallah’s experience with digital technology to produce the lamp. For this series, all the construction data was faxed to Xavier Mañosa in Barcelona. The planes of the geometrical solid were then stiffened with special resin, assembled and used to create the mould that shapes the ceramic diffuser.

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