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Inner Life

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Inspiring a curiosity of history and the passage of time, Italian design group, Nucleo, entwines the old with the new, the rough with the polished and the natural with the artificial. 

Nucleo’s Lapislazuli

The collective team of four artists creates through thoughtful innovation. It explores the effects of materials and unique interminglings on the architectonic form. The objective is to connect art with design and to make a sense of new past. 

Nucleo’s resin furniture pieces for the Ammann Gallery were recently exhibited at Design Miami 2015. What extraordinary and timeless creations they are. Extraordinary, because of their tactile and luminous qualities that coexist in one form. Timeless, because the past is the inner essence of the future. 

‘The Souvenir of the Last Century Bench’, epoxy resin and antique wood bench

Old found pieces of furniture are cast and preserved in epoxy resin and become the inner life of new treasures.The casting process, in and of itself, is part of an unpredictable art form creating unique bubbles and colours within the resin.

‘Souvenir of the Last Century Ladder’, epoxy resin and antique wood ladder

The most brilliant examples of this collection are new archetypes of semi-precious stones. Layered with varied pigments, many resin pieces are broken and recast to create the look of geodes containing fossils and colourful crystal structures.  

‘Lapizlazuli Stone Fossil’, Limited edition, epoxy resin, wood, pigment 

‘Amethyst Stone Fossil’, Limited edition, epoxy resin and pigments 

Nucleo is a creative force synonymous for research, innovation and introspection. It encases the past into the future and the art into the design.

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In the Shadow of Light

All’ombre della luce (In the shadow of light), by maker, Ritsue Mishima, is an homage to the artistic heritage of Maison Perrier- Jouet. It is a poetic installation that continues the celebration of creativity and nature.

Mishima’s creation is an experiential one that invites contemplation and reflection. Her vision of art and nature that parallels harmonious light-and-shadow-play made its debut at Design Miami/2015.

The iconic champagne house of Perrier-Jouet has been rooted in the creative world since its foundation in 1811. It is renowned for its enchanting vineyards from which the most elegant floral wines are masterfully crafted.

Perrier-Jouet’s connoisseurship of art, love of nature and historic ties to the Art Nouveau movement has inspired creative conversation through many original works by renowned artists.

The graceful anemone spray on the jeroboams of Perrier-Jouet represents one such inspired work by master glassmaker and Art Nouveau pioneer, Emile Galle, in 1902.

A century on, Japanese artist, Mishima, transforms Galle’s vision of nature and continues the creative exploration.

She parallels the traditional crafting of champagne with the skillful art of glass-making. An original work of art by Mishima is that of a spectacular blown glass bowl. Its organic form evokes the natural environment of Perrier-Jouet. Its curves playfully portray the bubbles of champagne. 

The celebrated anemones of Perrier-Jouet are realized in a stylized pattern on the walls; subliminal evocations of a garden and its omnipresent inspiration. 

The anemone is simultaneously reinterpreted within each unique blown glass disc; one of a myriad organic and rippled halos of light that are suspended at different heights from a ceiling that appears to disappear above it all. The ethereal spheres capture and play with the light. The delicate choreography is an ode to the rays of the sun and their reflections on surrounding surfaces.

The two protagonists of the story are indeed light and shadow. The splendor of light that shines life on the Maison Belle Epoque vineyards is matched only with the nurturing half-light of the silent cellars where the creation of champagne magically takes place.

Mishima’s creation echoes the art of blending with the art of glassblowing and, in the shadow of light, it celebrates the beauty of nature through streams of rising bubbles in golden champagne. 

“The subtle shade of the wine, the elegant bubbles catching the light, and the delicate anemones winding around the bottle influenced the creative process.” - Ritsue Mishima  

All images by Regina Sturrock 

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