Playing with Porcelain

Playing with Porcelain

All images and quotes via Abitare

Paola Navone reworks classic white china for the historic Italian porcelain company, Richard Ginori. The concept of her installation is fascinating:

...I thought of turning the traditional image of Richard Ginori products as indoor furnishings on its head by presenting them in an open-air setting. In the next project – “One Off ” at Merci, in Paris – I wanted to demonstrate the firm’s skill in relating to the design industry. I took 1000 kilos of white, unmatched reject china and, in little more than a month, had it decorated with decal fragments, brushstrokes and splashes of colour. This metamorphosis gave new life not only to the product, but also to how it’s sold – one-offs sold by weight, the way stockists sell off remnants.

Not to mention the finished products are absolutely gorgeous. I wouldn't mind a set of stapled dinner plates.

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