Published on : Friday, January 31, 2014
After the success during the Toronto Design Offsite, where, the coffee set Sucabaruca, won the awards; for Juror’s Choice and Best Exhibition during the festival, will be presented for the first time in Europe, at the Stockholm Design Week 2014 a unique event at Gaston wine bar, Mälartorget 15 in the heart of the Swedish capital.
The “Sucabaruca” coffee set is rich in cultural and formal references that come from the influences of several people involved in the project. The main cone-shaped body is reminiscent of “Carmencita”, the famous character created by Armando Testa in 1966 for the tv show“Carosello”. The patterns, hand-engraved by hand in the ceramic, are meant to emphasize the uniqueness of the pieces, as well as for the tray, manufactured using material such as Canadian maple wood, which always reveal new and unique patterns when carved. Just like in a game, the set elements can be stacked and combined as desired, indulging in the different personalities offered by 3 colour palettes, from total white, inspired by the fashion designer Martin Margiela, to pastel tones, characteristic of Japanese architectures, and eventually pop colours, a tribute to the eclectic artist Jean-Paul Goude.
It is a project that, from the start, has been involving people from different cultures and countries: Juli and John who, with passion, collect and distribute in Canada products mainly from Scandinavia and Japan; the Canadian ceramist Alissa Coe, who made the prototypes, skillfully interpreting our project; and Lera Moiseeva, designer and artist of Russian origin, but New Yorker by adoption, who contributed to the development of the coffee set in collaboration with Nichetto’s studios in Sweden and Italy. All these people have enriched the project, making it an extraordinary melting pot of ideas and energy on an international scale.
Tags: Canadian ceramist Alissa Coe, Luca Nichetto + Mjölk Sucabaruca, Mälartorget 15, Nichetto's studios, Stockholm Design Week 2014, Sucabaruca
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