Best of #ceramics

From design to architecture, from urban planning to fashion, ceramics is a material with infinite aesthetic and technological possibilites.

Best of #ceramica
Originally ceramics was a simple material, suitable for the production of functional objects, whilst now it is a field of technological and creative research for companies, designers and architects.
Its properties make it the protagonist of architecture, where it becomes an important module to design the urban public space – as in the winning project of Tile of Spain Awards 2013 –, a spectacular cladding that merges into the heaven, in Museum de Fundatie by Bierman Henket Architecten, or the interior main element that designs the space with 3D “lickable” tiles, in London's ice-cream shop Olivogelo by Andy Martin Architects.
Ceramics meets wood in Mikko, a collection of birdhouses and birdfeeders created by French designers of Pygmalion Studio; with wicker in Workbench, a project by Alberto Fabbian and Paola Amabile that reinterprets feelings and technical possibilities of both materials combined together; with fabrics in tha containers created by Great Things to People to explore how to create standard machines that generate non-standard results in Catenary Pottery Printer.

Ceramics is on the table with Sucabaruca, the coffee set designed by Luca Nichetto derived from the influences of several people – from Carmencita to Martin Margiela to the artist Jean-Paul Goude –, with the porcelains by Nendo for Gen-emon, an unorthodox re-edit of one of the kiln’s most famous patterns – a small plum flower repeat and foliage scrollwork – and with Luscious Food Cravings, a study of food fetishes, transformed into objects, dishes, recipes and images by Studio Appétit and Lenneke Wispelwey.

Jaime Hayon uses ceramics for the table collection T-Table inspired by a bunch of mushrooms in a forest, whilst fashion designer Laura Papp uses it for the wedge of her Porcelain Shoes, inspired by the stone surfaces of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia.

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