Lullaby
Stefano Giovannoni, Lullaby
The project developed by Giovannoni is based on the idea of redesigning a chalice from the 1500s, as reproduced in the book Glassography Book Two by Giovanni Maggi. Re-inventing the glass, Giovannoni relates the banality of the object with the intense sentimental value evoked in him by the book from which it originates, and given to him in 1989 by his maestro, Remo Buti, with the dedication: “Beautiful copy!”.
Using ceramic once again, a material that, according to Giovannoni, is sometimes more flexible than even the most widely used plastic, the designer stratifies his experimentation of the concept of a vase over time, achieving a synthesis of memory and contemporaneousness that he describes as follows: “Although the vase is one of the world’s oldest objects, it can be re-invented through concepts in which morphology is in any case the expression of a construction technique”.
Stefano Giovannoni, Lullaby. “Quali cose siamo”. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2010. Photography: courtesy of Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Stefano Giovannoni, Lullaby. “Quali cose siamo”. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2010. Photography: courtesy of Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Lullaby by Stefano Giovannoni was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the exhibition “Quali cose siamo”, Triennale Design Museum, 2010.
