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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.
ph Delfino Sisto Legnani
Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi is the pragmatic visionary of Italian design. His lucidity is matched by a weighty sense of humor; he watches humanity amusedly from afar. As such, he is the consummate teacher, attentive and ready to learn from us, his students and subjects.
In December 2020, Pretziada released IMMORTALE, a collaboration with Andrea Branzi and Fratelli Argiolas, a family-run blacksmithing workshop from the island’s capital city of Cagliari.
The resulting collection is an assortment of fifteen unique sculptures: precious, meticulously hand-crafted black metal boxes representing an unknown destination, and the vitality and silence that dwell within it.
A collaboration with Branzi brings with it immense responsibilities. Branzi speaks to humankind, to everyone indiscriminately. His concepts, his narrative, his love for Archaic-Futurism all encompass the whole of humanity.
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