Gemme bowls inject a burst of colour to any dining table
(14/05/2010)

Created for Fratelli Guzzini and designed by Caterina Fadda of design studio FaddaSantos, the vibrant new Gemme (meaning ‘gem’) bowls will inject a burst of colour to any dining table.

Made from SAN, which has a similar textural quality to glass, Gemme bowls are shatterproof, durable and provide an instant colour lift to a contemporary home. The stylish bowls are available in four sizes and five vibrant colours – lime, orange, red, violet and yellow.

To celebrate the launch of Guzzini’s award winning Gemme bowls, the Design Museum Tank has hosted a public installation entitled Elements of Production, created by FaddaSantos. Elements of Production featured the Gemme arranged as twenty abstract place settings emphasising the bowls’ vibrant colours and form. The place settings sat on an oversized table made from polymer granules, the raw material used to make the Gemme bowls. To bring Elements of Production full circle, a line drawing of an injection-moulding machine, the machine used to manufacture Gemme bowls, featured on the glass wall of the Tank.

“Elements of Production explores the aesthetic qualities of household products and the hidden elements of its mass-manufacturing process. Materials and scale belonging to the industrial production are juxtaposed to those of the domestic environment.”

“An oversized dinner table has been created using the same quantity of polymer granules required to manufacture the twenty totems that sit on top of the table. Piled up as on a factory bench, the light and colourful totems contrast with the heavy injection-moulding machine drawn on the wall of the Tank. By creating an abstract environment linking manufacturing and consumption, the installation reveals the hidden technical aspects of the product design process,” explains designer Caterina Fadda.

FaddaSantos was established by Caterina Fadda and Fran Santos to design distinctive products and furniture for industrial production. A thorough understanding of materials and manufacturing processes sustains the studio’s creative approach. The emphasis is in exploring the decorative within the functional in order to create desirable objects.