Italian designer Antonio Arico’s craftsmanship and vision guide him to create pieces that not only fit into your home, but also go beyond time and challenge traditional artistic norms.
What happens when you mix work and play? Or when you deign to experiment with elegance and ostentation? Italian designer Antonio Arico’s collected works is the answer we’ve been looking for all along. While taking you through a fascinating selection of his works, Home Review also gives you a glimpse into the designer’s latest collection - a ceremonial table-set, suitably called ‘Le Perle’, exclusively crafted for Bitossi Home.
In 2015, Arico met glass artisan Sohelia Dilfanian, an expert in vitrales art for churches in Turin. Together, they embarked on an exploration of stainedglass employing techniques and using materials that are rather traditional. Their collaboration gave birth to the Cathedral Glass Cabinets.
Handmade by Dilfanian, the collection is made of geometric forms, and Arico brings a new dimension of the contemporary into play. In Arico’s words, the main objective behind the series was ‘to melt the indoor world with the one outside.’ Every time one opens a cabinet door, it will be like opening a bright window in one’s home.
Arico’s Australian Shells is a baroque-like moody exploration of organic shapes and lustrous finishes that ultimately resulted in a surreal, and almost dreamy, handmade tableware collection. Inspired by the Ionic Sea, the collection is Arico’s attempt to blend ceramic and shells to portray hidden Australian beauties that are often associated with the seas, lightness, and exoticism.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Home Review.
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