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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. Francesca Ferrari
Chiara Andreatti
Chiara Andreatti is a bundle of endless energy, curiosity, inventiveness and clear vision. Her quintessential background in product design makes her capable of translating her essence into a myriad of materials and contexts. Having spent her formative years at Piero Lissoni, she has spent the past decade creating project after project that have come to define her signature taste: refined, handcrafted, feminine, resolute. Fascinated by most everything, she is happiest when in a dusty workshop.
What was your strongest impression of Sardinia?
The natural state of everything, and the feeling of abandoning myself to that earthiness, the smells and the history. How strong the ties to tradition still were and the tangible union between sacred and the profane. The Nuragic sites where you could feel the primitive, rural lifestyle of our shared ancestors. The sense of territory which was linked to the genius loci. All of this had a strong feeling of primary importance.
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