SUBER
Cork objects for the table
Year
2009
Client
19th Biennial of Sardinian Arts & Crafts

Tableware items conceived for the
19th Biennial Exhibition of Sardinian Arts and Crafts
Sassari (Italy), 2009
Fruit basket and dishes, table centrepieces. These Objects represent an attempt to redeem cork – natural and ancient material (of which Sardinia is extremely rich) having endless potencialities – from the mortifying and nearly sole role of material for touristic souvenirs within which limits it is nowadays banished in the island. The dishes, in both their square and round version, feature a sequence of waves, the depressions of which may hold different kinds of fruit, while the basket – devoted to take oranges, grapefruits or lemons – consists of a deep vase supported by an oxidized steel ring. The project DOMO, of which the objects SUBER are part, was awarded in 2011 with the COMPASSO D'ORO and, therefore, is now part of the ADI Design Musem permanent collection, in Milano, which preserves and exhibits samples of each design product winning such prestigious prize since 1954.
Since 2020 the Vase SUBER also belongs to the permanent collection of the GNAM, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Roma.
XIX Biennale dell'Artigianato Sardo