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.
Fùrca Coffee Table
by Mimo Studio and
Pierpaolo Mandis
€ 2950,00
Over the last winter, in a time when the Sardinian countryside is quieting down into soft rains that will nurture the next year’s harvest, Pretziada had the pleasure of hosting an extended residency with the newly formed Mimo Studio. Over three months, Raphaelle Lhuillier and Margaux Padrutt studied the fluctuating rhythms of the countryside and the stark beauty of the landscape. The result is the collection Fùrca, three pieces that refer directly to their lived experience on the island.
Inspired both by the natural extrusions of stone monoliths found throughout the forest and the geometric forms found in historic agricultural tools, Fùrca is a collection that plays with a visual language that combines both the rudimentary and the refined. The shapes that make up these objects are a contrast in natural and human-made shapes; they refer to spontaneous forms we find both in nature and vernacular objects resolute architecture of rural places.
The finish, a repetition of a slightly green and black stain, creates a variegated and smooth materiality.
This table is born from a study of the totemic nature of large boulders throughout the rural countryside of Sardinia. These rocky spaces often contain hidden traces of the prehistoric Nuragic peoples, whose interventions in transforming natural landscapes into places of devotion are not always immediately apparent. The Fùrca Console Table uses its verticality together with subtle interventions to recall a sculpture that lives between two worlds.
Materials:
Hand carved, stained chestnut wood
Height 43 cm - Width 120 cm - Depth 35 cm
While we do have a small stock available, most pieces are made to order and will be shipped within 8-10 weeks. Please contact us directly if you need a more specific estimate.