Small Square Table

Tavole are six large limited edition centerpieces, in pewter or pewter and blown glass "designed to give meaning to the table and make it more magical and ritual". Extraordinary interpretations by Ettore Sottsass of traditional materials, in the highly iconographic language that distinguishes the great master.

Ettore Sottsass's design path takes us, in 2004, to the encounter between the lightness and color of Murano glass with the strong architectural construction of the pewter parts. The transparency of the glass does not hide the structure of the metal, it discreetly contains and protects the good fruits and offers them to our desire as a precious commodity. NUMA's fourth collection is made up of six pieces, six centerpieces that tell us about the joy and pleasure of thinking of objects that will accompany us in our daily gestures and rituals, becoming a happy part of our everyday life.

«Pewter is an ancient metal alloy: tin, copper, lead... what is produced with this alloy is immobile, solid, heavy. Contemporary pewter no longer contains the lead that gave the objects a dark, medieval, Germanic surface: this alloy instead contains antimony: thus brilliant objects are created, similar to silver, which however do not lose their immobility and presence".
Ettore Sottsass

Pewter is an ancient material, which was worked in Europe as early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, casting a tin alloy into engraved iron or brass shapes, and subsequently working it with the corrosion and hammering technique to obtain traditional artisan shapes. Contemporary pewter, the protagonist of the Numa collections, is a noble alloy in all respects, it has extraordinary characteristics of ductility and great plastic yield. Contemporary Pewter is made up of a composite set of metals, with the absolute exclusion of lead; it therefore maintains the peculiar characteristics that distinguish it and the great plastic yield unchanged; it is absolutely hygienic and can be used to produce objects to serve at the table and in the kitchen, as well as naturally for all furnishing objects.