Bitossi Ceramiche - Wiggle low square vase

Vase made with sliced and scratched panels by hands. Blush pink matt glaze.
Production Year: 2017.

Max Lamb

Max Lamb (born 1980) is a British designer who loves to combine traditional, if not ancestral, design methods with contemporary design.
It’s known for using a singular approach in the use of natural materials, such as the casting of pewter into the sand or the use of volcanic rock.
With the Wiggle project he designed for Bitossi Ceramiche he developed a new production technique using an old tool, cutting clay slabs with iron wire and building box-shaped containers using cut slabs. The spiral wire creates a wavy surface that is then enriched and underlined by the enamels.

Bitossi Ceramiche

Bitossi is a historic identity of Italian manufacturing, present since the second half of the nineteenth century in the area of Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany. The Bitossi manufactory, today Bitossi Ceramiche, belongs to the family for five generations and has been located in the same place since 1921. The company in the year 2014 was included in the Register of Italian Historical Enterprises. Bitossi production until the end of the 1940s reflects the traditional taste linked to local production, and then evolved into unique creations exported worldwide that still represent the excellence of Made in Italy. Many designers have approached the production of Manifattura Bitossi over the years, creating new collections. First of all, the architect Ettore Sottsass, who started to collaborate the Bitossi factory from 1955 to experiment and created new modern ceramics.