Red Round Table

Pewter and Murano glass stand ø cm 32x18 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.