At first glance the abstract masses are hard to decipher, but with a closer look familiar shapes start to appear: clusters of toys, wood slats, snakes and lines. Those already familiar with the designers will recognize their furniture work.
"Upon visiting the Bernardaud workshops in Limoges we quickly became fascinated by the range of technical expertise we discovered there. In the mould casting workshop that we were inspired to do the Nazareth coupe and we tried to push the limits of their capabilities," say the Campanas. "In the decorative workshop, it was the decalque technique that made us want to create Euro Tropiques. In general we work with volume, but here we had to place motifs with the use of collages, cutting and assemblage on flat surfaces."
The brothers transfer the way of creating texture and volume in their works to this collection of dinner and dessert plates. Three dimensional objects were captured in photographic images then transformed through collage and assemblage into decorative elements rendered on two dimensional surfaces.
