When quality and creativity are the foundations of a collaboration, the result is nothing but long lasting and excellent, especially when it comes to design. Today’s story is about the successful partnership between Benjamin Hubert studio and leading Italian brand Bitossi Ceramiche: the new collection designed by the much-awarded English studio for the Florence-based firm is out now, expanding last year’s collection, Seams, which became Bitossi Ceramiche’s best selling product in a 20 year history. The new line, Canisters, consists of five large ceramic centre pieces: it stems from the studio’s research into creating mass-produced products with unique details by manipulating a traditional ceramic manufacturing process.

The mould has in fact been split several times, introducing additional seam lines. Rather than cleaning these seams from the product, as would be normal practice, they remain as decoration. The moulds require an intricate and innovative method of production to split them into the multiple components necessary to create the seam lines. The name of the range is related to those design items’ silhouette, as each of the vessels takes its shape from archetypal industrial canister form, counterbalanced with a more decorative seam detail than the first collection. The soft pastel colours and matte glaze are sympathetic to the forms, and keep the focus on the decorative seam elements. Innovative, yet related to the traditional Italian ceramic manufacture quality, Canisters is not just the symbol of a winning collaboration but also the best way to emphasize the so called Made in Italy, which finds in Bitossi Ceramiche one of its most refined examples.

INFO: www.benjaminhubert.co.uk

PHOTO COURTESY: Benjamin Hubert