Mottled, loud, regal. It is the union of materials from different natures. Only an expert craftsman knows which direction its veining will take once it reaches the firing point.
The processing of Variegated Terracotta dates back to the Italian Lombardy area following the splendour of the Renaissance. It covered the most prestigious buildings with its veined, juxtaposed decorations, as if to reproduce marble designs from the most precious quarries.
However, it comes from terracotta. A primitive clay, quarried from the beds of Lombardy’s rivers among the different stratifications of the ground. And it is exactly this stratification that makes it possible to manipulate the different clays with one another. Mixed, blended in layers with different techniques depending on the decoration. Each kiln had its own moulding method and each area had its own clays, resulting in countless varied types of cotto.
As varied as the land of which it is made.
The Colors
Lambro Like the river that joins Monza to Brianza, White to Black, so the clay from the deepest layer of soil is joined to the more superficial clay imported from distant volcanic lands. Lambro represents opposites, which meet like fluids with different chemical compositions. Distinctly harmonious.
Black Bucchero Less is more: reduce oxygen while firing the terracotta, let the carbon particles of the smoke penetrate the body of the objects being fired, and get the black bucchero, an ancient Etruscan opacity illuminated by subtle hints of silver. This can only be done through a process of oxygen reduction. Adding is not always necessary for improvement.
The Shape
Core A chest to protect. A core to be protected. The Core combines the two most contrasting elements of Euclidean geometry. It decomposes and recomposes them into the three units of an interdependent puzzle. A central round enclosed by two rectangular elements as if to suggest the superimposition of the Circle on the Square. From the infinite to the definite.
Treatment
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