Driade - Pierre vase

A table set in white porcelain Bone China designed by the artist and designer Xie Dong who has revisited, poetically, the processing of traditional Chinese ceramics. The porcelain is processed to obtain a very thin thickness: extremely fine, resembling a sheet of paper. Complex technical processes allow porcelain to take magical and changing forms: it bends, rolls, undulates, crumples, curves, turns... The glossy surface, in a pure white, plays with the effects of movement and reacts to light like a living form. Each piece of this collection is unique and authentic, produced by hand and signed by the artist who wanted to translate into poetry what is a deep craftsmanship.

Xie Dong

Xie Dong was born in Beijing in 1967. After gratuating, she started to try various kinds of ceramic materials and techniques to express her art. She ventured in other form of art creation with different material such as cloth, paper and leather. She works essentially on phenomena, such as heaviness and lightness, on the dynamics of shapes, on elusive elements and throught a particular and complex technical process, she can bend and rippel the ceramic. Her approach to design is that of an artist able to translate into poetry great artisanal skills linked to ancient chinese handcraftsmanship.

Driade

Driade is an aesthetic workshop in the continuous search for beauty in living. The extensive catalogue includes furniture for the home, garden and collective spaces. They are objects of art and daily use, souls combing harmoniously. All this makes Driade unique in design world. The aesthetic laboratory is the result of the desire to introduce experimentation into mass-produced products. The pursuit of creativity in every product constitutes the goal of the enterprise. Driade creates products that are unique, eclectic, eccentric but at the same time elegant, timeless and, above all, joyful. The art of living is based on the idea that eclecticism, mélange of cultures, curiosity and surprise are the true essence of our age. Being permeable to differences makes Driade project a highly topical proposal one that is open to the future. Driade also denies the flattening of globalization but senses its vitality and freshness resulting from the multiplication of places and the development of ideas.