Collection: Numa - New Ancient Materials

NUMA , New Ancient Materials is the project, inspired and led by Roberto Zani, who for some years has been working on the reinterpretation of traditional materials through contemporary and modern expressive languages, producing small series and limited edition design objects.

The story of Numa begins in 1999 with Metallia , a collection of pewter objects by multiple authors and continues in 2001 with the first limited edition called Just for Flowers , six pewter vases designed by Ettore Sottsass .

In the following years, the NUMA project extended its research to other traditional materials, excavated wood and Murano glass. The result is three new limited edition collections: Custodie by Giuseppe Rivadossi , from 2003; Secret Tables and Boxes , by Ettore Sottsass , 2004.

In 2006 the NUMA project embarked on a new research path, the result of the opening of three "rooms": the room of architecture, poetry and philosophy.

Roberto Zani's new intuition involves Mario Botta in the project, creating thirteen extraordinary vases, the poet Mario Luzi with a collection of poems and the philosopher Remo Bodei through an essay of profound value.

Numa is a research laboratory where traditional materials are explored with the help of today's expressive languages. Pewter, wood, glass, and then ceramic, stone and other materials traditionally used by craftsmen.

Numa is a Zani Serafino brand www.serafinozani.it