Nuoveforme|Icone Collection: a journey into the past generates a new present
The modernity of an iconic collection that the current design language brings back under the headlights.
The idea of the Icone collection comes from the encounter of Nuoveforme with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug and it takes shape as a curious journey within the rich historical archive of the Alvino Bagni Manufacture. The concept is stimulated by the search for suggestions and ideas through which to re-interpretate some of the original shapes of the archive that can be considered as one of the richest collections in the field of design ceramics.
Some of the goals that both the company and the designers shared were essential to develop the project in its final form:
• telling about the great passion for ceramics and the values that are at the base of Nuoveforme
today and originally of Ceramiche Alvino Bagni;
• bringing back to life and enhancing the tradition of design ceramics;
• re-reading this heritage under a contemporary light in order to make it usable.
Some works, conceived by Alvino Bagni and some others in collaboration with Remo Buti, all related to a time span that goes from the 50s ’to the 80’s, immediately struck Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug for being so modern and varied: urban contaminations, animal subjects, playful and iconic shapes. The inspiration came immediately and led them to revisiting the original subjects, working through an unprecedented color code with the aim of restoring freshness and modernity to a selection of original artifacts.
The Icone Collection can be considered as a careful and gentle reinterpretation, with a new look made up of colors and combinations that the two designers have specially designed to emphasize the original expressive strength of each piece.
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Years 50’s
Chess vases
Vases with Lid
Design Alvino Bagni
Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug have selected these original and highly emblematic shapes from Nuoveforme Archive, turning them into archetypal subjects with a high decorative content. There are three types of vases: the King, the Queen and the Tower.
From the originals of Nuoveforme archive reinterpreted in collaboration with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug.
Technical data:
King – Vase with lid – cm. 36H x 13,5 Ø – Pale Green Mat – Dark Green Mat – Yellow Mat – Gray Mat
Queen – Vase with lid – cm. 33H x 13,5 Ø – Pink Mat – Dark Green Mat – Ocher Mat – Gray Mat
Tower – Vase with lid – cm. 42H x 16 Ø – Pale Green Mat – Dark Green Mat – Purple Glossy – Ocher Mat – Gray Mat – Yellow Glossy
Years 70’s
Pidou vases
Vases
Design Alvino Bagni
The source of inspiration for these vases for Alvino Bagni was the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the architectural symbol of Renzo Piano’s modernity. This suggestion turned into vessels and lamps reproducing the concept of those tubular shapes that feature the exterior part of the building of architect Piano. The vases can be used individually but also in combination with the others and they are available in some intense chromatic variations that can be set in spaces with different styles.
From the originals of Nuoveforme archive reinterpreted in collaboration with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug.
Technical data:
Pidou vase – shape B – Vase cm.30H x 24 L – Green Mustard Mat – Gray Mat – Burgundy Red Mat – Peach Mat
Pidou vase – shape H – Vase cm.21H x 20 L – Purple Glossy – Dark Gray Glossy
Pidou vase – shape S – Vase cm.25,5H x 30 L – Peach Mat – Light Pink Mat – Gray Mat – Blue Mat – Green Mustard Mat
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Years 70’s – 80’s
Inflated Vase
Design Alvino Bagni
Technical and formal experimentation: in a period when Alvino Bagni challenges with these activities, he conceived the Inflated Vase, where he conceived an unusual object from the application of the extrusion technique. Its plastic and almost sculptural shape combined with its brilliant colors make it a stunning and also scenographic eye-catching decorative piece for any setting.
From the originals of Nuoveforme archive reinterpreted in collaboration with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug.
Technical data:
Inflated vase/Extrusion – Vase – cm.30H x 15 Ø – Coral Red Glossy – Purple Glossy – Turquoise Glossy
Years 80’s
Cock and Hen
Decorative objects
Design: Remo Buti
Many different objects, including this minimal and essential zoomorphic couple, were conceived from the collaboration between Alvino Bagni and one of the leading figures of the Radical Movement of Florence. The colors featured are delicate mat colors and contribute to create a relaxing and satisfying design experience.
From the originals of Nuoveforme archive reinterpreted in collaboration with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug.
Technical data:
Cock and Hen – Cock Figure – cm.29H x 26L x 9 P – Gray/Blue Matt – Coral Red/Pink Mat
Cock and Hen – Hen Figure – cm.18H x 18L x 6 P – Green Matt – Brown Mat
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Years 70’s
Birdie
Decorative Bird
Design: Alvino Bagni
A simple, almost elementary shape conceived to represent the formal understatement and cleanliness that have always been the key elements of Alvino Bagni’s style language. A shape where all unnecessary elements were removed and replaced only by essentials and archetypes. Bagni has worked on many animal subjects throughout his entire career: this one in particular strikes for its essentiality and for the expressive strength made of intuition and powerful colors.
From the originals of Nuoveforme archive reinterpreted in collaboration with Simona Cardinetti and Christoph Schnug.
Technical data:
Birdie – Bird Figure – cm.15H x 20L x 6P – Yellow Mat/Gray Mat – Yellow Glossy/Gray Glossy – Gray Glossy – Pink Mat/Burgundy Mat – Pink Glossy/Burgundy Glossy – Coral Red Glossy
With a history of artistic ceramic production that has lasted since 1946, today Nuoveforme is a synthesis of manufacturing tradition and innovation: a laboratory in which projects take shape with great passion and dedication, step by step,
also thanks to the contribution of the designers and their creativity, in memory and in full respect of the path traced by this great artist / ceramist and made of passion, technique, creativity and modesty.
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