Salvatori Ellipse Soap Dish
ELLIPSE SOAP DISH
ELLIPSE SOAP DISH
Designed By John Pawson
The Ellipse soap dish is created from a single, perfect circle of Bianco Carrara marble.
A smooth, shallow depression has been hollowed out of the stone, highlighting the natural grey and white cloudiness of the marble.
Finished by hand in Salvatori’s Tuscan workshop, this smooth-edged vessel adds a touch of elegant design to any bathroom. The Ellipse collection is a family of vessels and utensils for the home designed by long-time Salvatori collaborator John Pawson.
Sharing a geometry and materiality – each piece is shaped from a continuous piece of Bianco Carrara marble – the collection is typical of Pawson’s expressive, minimal style: the simple forms of the vessels evoking a sense of calm and a spirituality. Note The technique used to create the soft, sinuous curves of each piece in the Ellipse collection replicates that of stones on a riverbed smoothed over the centuries by the relentless flow of water. The tiny holes that may appear in the surface of the stone are a natural characteristic of this process and should not be considered a flaw.
DESIGNER
JOHN PAWSON
Internationally-renowned British architect John Pawson is widely considered the father of minimalist architecture. We have worked with him a number of times since our first project together in 2009, the iconic House of Stone.
United by a passion for challenging conventional norms to create functional, beautiful design, we have together developed contemporary products for the home including the Ellipse homeware range and Span collection of indoor and outdoor furniture.
In 2021 he contributed to The Village, our special project that explores the concept of home, reinterpreting it in a collection of miniature houses in natural stone that are each a design accessory in their own right, but together represent the global village we inhabit today.
John Pawson CBE has spent over thirty years making rigorously simple architecture that speaks of the fundamentals but is also modest in character. His body of work spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private houses, sacred commissions, galleries, museums, hotels, ballet sets, yacht interiors and a bridge across a lake.
As Alvar Aalto’s bronze door handle has been characterised as the ‘handshake of a building’, so a sense of engaging with the essence of a philosophy of space through everything the eye sees or the hand touches is a defining aspect of Pawson’s work. His method is to approach buildings and design commissions in precisely the same manner, on the basis that ‘it’s all architecture’.
Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house, a saucepan or a ballet, everything is traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual. In this way, even something as modest as a fork can become a vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live and what we value.
“For over thirty years, internationally-renowned architect John Pawson has developed countless examples of deceptively simple architecture that give rise to far wider ideas.”
INFORMATION
PRODUCT TYPE
Soap Dish
MATERIAL
Marble
WEIGHT
0.9 kg
PRODUCTION
Made In Italy
PACKAGEING DIMENSION
21x9x21 cm
DIMENSIONS
- Ø : 14 cm
- Height : 2 cm
FINISHES
Natural Grey
PACKAGEING WEIGHT
1 kg
GOOD TO KNOW
-This tray has been treated with a neutral sealer which not only helps protects it from staining, but also ensures it is suitable for use with food.
-Please be aware however, that natural stone will always retain some level of absorption and therefore products with a high acid, fat or oil content should never be placed on it.
Any liquids should be wiped off as quickly as possible.
