The Perfect Union
Every year in the coldest weeks of the winter season, strange sculptures begin to appear in the fields all over the island. It is the moment for grafting.
Wild olive trees grow throughout the island and they produce perfectly tiny olives with a thin and bitter skin. However, though the oil from wild olives is supposedly superior to that of domesticated varieties, the yield is much, much lower. And so the grafting game begins. Wild olive trees grow throughout the island and they produce perfectly tiny olives with a thin and bitter skin. However, though the oil from wild olives is supposedly superior to that of domesticated varieties, the yield is much, much lower. And so the grafting game begins.
1946 Standing Cabinet
by Pretziada Studio and
Pierpaolo Mandis
€5850,00
1946 is the year that the Sardinian artist Costantino Nivola - recently escaped from Europe and transplanted to New York - encountered Le Corbusier, a meeting that would influence each of them for years to come. This cabinet collection embraces the union between their creative minds by recalling the minimalist sensuality in some of Nivola’s most famous works, and applying the simplicity and purity of Le Corbusier’s architectural aesthetic to the cabinet structure hidden behind.
The bronze handles are a particular homage to this duo: the shape is an abstraction of a small, found sculpture we keep in our studio made from a tree trunk that had grown around a chain-link fence. After making various molds, we asked the artisans La Nuova Fucina to produce this same shape in bronze, using an antique method of sand-casting - a technique that became central to Nivola’s work as he grew into creating large, architectural sculptural panels in the 1950’s.
Secondarily, the cabinets recall a standard principal of Sardinian architecture, with the oversized front panels creating a facade to a simpler, essential cabinet structure. These facades can be found all over the island, from prehistoric tombs to even the most humble of farmhouses. Here, the facades honor the rotund shape of those archaic spaces, which soften the rigidity of the functional furniture behind.
Materials:
Layered chestnut & poplar wood panels for structural stability, sand-casted bronze handle.
Height 190 cm - Width 96 cm - Depth 39 cm
While we do have a small stock available, most pieces are made to order and will be shipped within 10-12 weeks.
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