Opinionciatti Frutteti Bohemian crystal bowls
FRUTTETI Bohemian crystal bowls
FRUTTETI BOHEMIAN CRYSTAL BOWLS
Design Gherardo Frassa & Gianluca Bianchi
Turning an object of common use into a sophisticated design object is a dear concept to Opinion Ciatti, and Frutteti – Bohemian crystal bowls where series of engraved metal decorations lie – perfectly embodies this mission by succeeding in transforming a common fruit basket into something special.
Free citations about seasons for the three subjects of a line full of strong symbolic meanings and evocative features, available in polished stainless steel or brass finish: fairy dragonflies, exquisite leaves or delicate butterflies.
The dragonflies of Libertà by Gherardo Frassa smell like summer. Gentle and little animals, everlasting archetype of freedom, who instead of flying undisturbed above the wheat fields burned under the August sun, decide to stop in our homes.
They clearly remind to autumn the tiny leaves which stand on Come d'autunno a New York, giving our tables the same romanticism as the ones falling during autumn in New York's parks.The ladies of Madama.B – the last subject of the line born in 2017 from the art of Gianluca Bianchi – are elegant as spring can be.
Large and small butterflies which land on the bowls as soft as they do when in spring they flutter from flower to flower. Frutteti is a collection which aims to combine emotions and functionality, becoming perfect "companions of life”. "How to applied art to the fruit, how to make special an object of common use. "
Gherardo Frassa
DESIGNER
GIANLUCA BIANCHI
Gianluca Bianchi was born in Genoa and spent his childhood in Turin. He moved to Milan more than 30 years ago.
He discovered his passion for photography thanks to a trip to Mexico while he was studying at university.Once completed his degree, he started to work with Giuseppe Pino.
In the mid-90s he met Gherardo Frassa with whom he collaborated in a variety of projects. In 2012, their friendship brought to the direct involvement of Gianluca Bianchi in the project "Fiori di latta" by Gherardo Frassa. Together they founded Citazioni, a production and distribution company of all the most important creations of Fiori di Latta unique world.
Unfortunately, the unexpected loss of Gherardo puts an end to this unique experience but the passion of Gianluca for image, art, design continues nowadays.
GHERARDO FRASSA
Born in the Valle dei Camuni, the valley of graffiti and iron, he soon starts to travel: to Milan, London and Paris, followed by 7 years on-the-road in the United States. He finally returns to Milan where he opens the shop “Balocchi e profumi” which invites to breathe in the air of novelty that is a distinctive feature of his discoveries.
To become acquainted with Gherardo Frassa, who passed away prematurely in June 2014, it is sufficient to say that he used to call himself an “eventologist” and that he spent his life between art, artisan work, fashion and design. Exhibitions, books, pieces of art, objects, cultural tributes, research, reconstruction, commercial initiatives:
he dedicated his life to a myriad of different activities, always with his signature ant-conformist attitude, a love for the unusual (especially if backed by intelligence and history), an obsessive care for detail which he associated to an overflowing irony and joyful modesty.
His love for graffiti, iron and details find their utmost expression in the “disguise” that he possibly loved most and to which he dedicated his later years. The tin flower gardener, the inventor of those tiny sculptures, made entirely in tin, hand painted and depicting imaginative flowers of the strangest shapes, inspired by the original pictures of the futurist Osvaldo Bot and his “Futurist Mechanical Flora”.
INFORMATION
BRAND
Opinion Ciatti
TYPOLOGY
Crystal Bowls
PRODUCTION
Made in Italy
DIMENSIONS
- 29/11,4”
- Ø20,5/8,07”
- 11,5/4,5”
DESIGNERS
- Gherardo Frassa
- Gianluca Bianchi
FINISHES
- Polished stainless steel
- Brass finish
MATERIAL
- Sculptural marble object holder with brass stalk
- Brass mirror on the inside
