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Compatta: note sulla collezione | Compatta: notes on the collection

The Compatta ceramics collectio

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Compatta is a ceramics collection that combines a fascination with natural matter

with one with an extremely ancient construction technique. The project’s primar

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inspiration springs from an observation of the ground’s many layers and structures

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and the mixtures of its elementary constituent particles, complete

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by a consideration of the age-old rammed earth building method, which construct

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continuous walls from raw earth compacted into cases

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Through their evocation of this traditional construction technique, Federico

Peri’s designs remind us of architecture and thus art, which creates and de

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the home as our inhabitable environment, thus placing a delicate yet irresistibl

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reference to the natural world within an arti

ficial indoor space.

A portion of a landscape or a horizon, the “earthy” motif the designer places

on the surface of the ceramic slab has a remote, primitive feel, balanced by a

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approach to composition and design, choice and use of colour, and arrangemen

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and balancing of the geometrical forms perfectly in line with contemporary taste

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Through the attractive, tasteful visual-creative solutions adopted for Compatta

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Federico Peri suggests a poetic, meaningful short-circuit between the deeply archaic

and the ultra-contemporary. While on the one hand the use of primordial raw eart

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is underlined, on the other hand it is the capability to generate this impression using

state-of-the-art ceramic production techniques that creates the magic of a wor

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outstanding for its rare originality

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A variety of decorative motifs appear on slabs’ surfaces depending on their size.

Some, starting from the largest, carry sinuous and sometimes hypnotic pattern

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woven by the successive layering of single strata of earths in uniform bands of

colour. On others, a dense, dusty amalgam of earth may acquire the warm shade

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of sand or clay or the cold hues of silt or gravel.

The combination - or perhaps hybridisation - of these woven earth motif

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creates the designs of additional slabs of immense decorative impact, generated b

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the two- or three-dimensional inclusion of forms with generally rounded, extremel

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fined shapes.

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