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Aquamarine Round Table
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  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Aquamarine Round Table
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Aquamarine Round Table

Aquamarine Round Table

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Pewter and Murano glass stand ø cm 32x10 h, limited edition of 99 pieces. Pewter casting hand-finished with welding and brush polishing operations. Plate in blown Murano glass.

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 strongly iconographic language that distinguishes the great master.

Ettore Sottsass's design journey takes us, in 2004, to the meeting 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 contains and discreetly protects the good fruits and offers them to our desire as a precious good. The IV NUMA 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 gestures and daily 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 objects a dark, medieval, Germanic surface: this alloy contains antimony instead: this is how shiny objects are made, similar to silver, which however do not lose their immobility and presence".
Ettore Sottsass

Pewter is an ancient material, which was already being worked in Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, by casting a tin alloy into engraved iron or brass moulds, and then 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 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; it is absolutely hygienic and can be used to produce objects to serve at the table and in the kitchen, as well as, of course, for all furnishing objects.

Material:

Pewter is an alloy composed of tin and small quantities of antimony and copper. Due to its ductility, it has been used since ancient times by man to create objects of common use. In the centuries closest to us, a percentage of lead was added to the tin, which was soon banned due to its toxicity. The pewter used to create Numa objects is an alloy composed of 95% tin, and the absolute absence of lead makes it fully compliant with the EN-611/1 regulation of the EEC.

Processing phases:

  1. The first operation related to the production cycle is the purchase of the raw material in loaves or sheets of pewter ready to be melted, or the purchase of loaves or sheets of tin, wires or bars of copper and antimony, which, melted in the appropriate melting furnace at a temperature of 250-300° C, give the pewter.
  2. The molten metal is poured manually using a ladle into rubber molds. These molds are mounted on centrifuges: machines that rotate the mold during the casting and drying phase of the alloy.
  3. After the drying phase, the operator extracts the product, which is then deburred with scissors and sanded.
  4. For the pieces that need it, manual assembly follows by tin welding.
  5. The pieces are then manually inserted into the vibrators, where they remain for about 2 hours. Vibration smoothes the surface of the object using water and ceramic inserts (inert material).
  6. Upon exiting the vibrators, the pieces are checked and, if necessary, straightened using rubber hammers. After this phase, the final phase of hand polishing using brushes takes place.
  7. Each single piece is finally stamped with the designer's signature, the Numa logo and its numbering.

NB All the manufacturing phases are carried out by highly specialized workers, at the atelier of the master pewterer Alfredo Marinoni, Cellatica (BS).

About this article
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  • Aquamarine Round Table
  • Pewter casting hand finished with welding and brush polishing operations. Plate in blown Murano glass.
  • EAN13 :
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  • Color: Aquamarine, metal
  • Design: Ettore Sottsass
  • Style: Tables - aquamarine round table
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Materials and Instructions for Use
  • Material : Pewter casting hand finished with welding and brush polishing operations. Plate in blown Murano glass.
  • Induction ?
  • Dishwasher Safe :
  • Suitable for use in a microwave oven ?
Dimensions and Weight
  • Ø diameter 32.00 cm
  • Height 10.00 cm
  • Capacity liters
  • Width cm
  • Depth cm
  • Weight 3.90 kg

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