The Cottage Industry
Kaleidos

Designer
Giorgia Zanellato

Location
Tuttobene
Le Officine

 

About
The Cottage Industry products tread a fine line between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Never settling for the mundane and always questioning the everyday objects that surround us. Not too witty, not too clever, just simple products that are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. This year sees the launch of the Kaleidos vase. Other products from The Cottage Industry include the ON/OFF Mug and the Big Bloom vase.

Presentation
When Giorgia Zanellato designs a vase, she starts by focusing on the functionality of the vase as an object. But what exactly is the function we attribute to a vase, she muses? To display flowers surely.

The Kaleidos vase uses a faceted mirror to draw attention to the flower. The highly polished geometrically arranged mirrored facets accentuate the flower, intensify and amplify its colored petals in a dizzyingly, kaleidoscopic floral explosion.

The flower becomes abstracted, distorted, mesmeric…a thoroughly enchanting effect. The flower as a work of art, a horticultural study, a scientific experiment? You decide.

 Kaleidos is derived from the ancient Greek words kalos, meaning beautiful, and eidos, that which is seen in shape and form.

Contact
Damian O’Sullivan
Pater
Pieters-Woluwe
Belgium

[email protected]
www.the-cottage-industry.com

Opening time
Daily 10.00 – 19.00

Press preview
Mon. 13 Apr. 14.00-19.00