Collection: Precious Chests

Ettore Sottsass: «I wanted to design boxes to open, taking care to lift the lid slowly with two hands, as if the box could feel that I am kind to it and that I don't want to mistreat it in the slightest. Boxes made with precious woods where you can put even slightly secret things: a special brush, some special paper notebooks or more simply something that I would like to remain secret. Maybe notes from lovers."

Ettore Sottsass designed Scatole Segrete for Numa, in multi-layer wood: five small architectures that express a very personal vision of the value of things: that symbolic value that certain objects full of meaning can take on when we use them for a very specific reason.

Real wooden sculptures worked according to ancient methods and knowledge, respecting the flow of the fibres, the hidden veins and the peculiar characteristics of an essence, the national walnut (Iuglans Regia) which Rivadossi knows very well. Arca Serena , Bretone , Carolingia , Dolmen and Vela are five caskets with strong chiaroscuro, handcrafted with the excavation technique, which Numa offers in a numbered edition of 14 pieces.

Giuseppe Rivadossi: «The Custody is a small ark that welcomes and protects our dearest things, it is the wrapping with which we ourselves lovingly wrap the objects, the signs of our affections, it is a small gesture in which we recognize our relationship with Creation. The Custody is the home of our memory, it is a sign of love and a sign of how we ourselves feel loved and cared for. We build these small homes with walnut (Iuglans Regia), a noble and precious wood, which originates and lives in our Pre-Alps. We work the essence following ancient methods and knowledge, a keen sensitivity and great manual skill are the basis of the constructive honesty that guides us. Even in these small containers we want to leave the mark of our vision of life."