Guadalupe Vase - Blue - H38cm - des. Bethan Laura Wood for Bitossi Ceramiche
£520.00
The Guadalupe Vase designed by Bethan Laura Wood for Bitossi Ceramiche in 2016 is truly beautiful, very special and oh-so-blue.
Representing an enchanting meeting of past and future, in which Bitossi’s artistic legacy is reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, Bethan Laura Wood revisits the ceramic tradition with a modern eye, combining a decorative aesthetic with a distinctive colour palette, in line with Bitossi’s unique style.
The surface of the vase is characterised by an expressive pattern of graphic shapes and flowing lines derived from the stained glass window of the New Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico City). This pattern wraps itself around the vase and harmoniously pairs with the Blu Rimini shade and crystalline crackle glaze, recalling the iconic collections of Aldo Londi and his beloved Rimini Blu.
Details:
- Vase made by casting in white earth. Bright light blue crystalline with crackle.
- H 38 cm - ∅ 23 cm
- Year of production 2016
- The ceramics produced by Bitossi are entirely handmade by artisans in all stages of production.
About Bethan Laura Wood:
Bethan Laura Wood has run a multidisciplinary studio since 2009 characterised by materials investigation, artisan collaboration and a passion for colour and detail. Residencies and location-based projects have become an important factor in her design process, often working in response to her location, in collaboration with local manufacturers, or reflecting back into her work the visual and material culture particular to that area. Bethan is fascinated by the connections we make with the everyday objects that surround us and, as a collector herself, likes to explore what drives people to hold onto one particular object while discarding another. Bethan explores these relationships and questions how they might become cultural conduits. She is interested in critical approaches to achieving sustainability within mass consumption and the production-driven context of the design industry.
About Bitossi:
Heir to a long dynasty and tradition, Guido Bitossi founded the Guido Bitossi Artistic Maioliche factory in 1921, offering a production still tied to tradition and the classical styles of the past with refinement and study of the product. The evolution of Bitossi Ceramiche starts from the early 1950s under the artistic direction of Aldo Londi; a man with both an innate creative and aesthetic sense and a mind attentive to changes in taste and to the uniqueness of the Italian product. Londi entered Bitossi in 1946 and from that moment on he was the undisputed protagonist of the production style for more than fifty years, first as a painter, then as an artistic director and finally as a tireless experimenter.
