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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDY PRICE WRITER: ROSA BERTOLI

ack in 1968, Italian tile company Cedit tasked

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni with creating a

series of ceramic objects, with the only brief being to

keep it small. The pair proposed a small collection

of vases, whose original shapes referenced abstracted

geometric forms. The body of the vase is held by a

curved support, an arrangement that ofers multiple

silhouettes depending on the viewer’s perspective:

a cone with a lying buttress from one angle, a gaping

pocket from another. Half a century after the original

design, ‘Lapis’, was released, Cedit has reissued

the pieces in grey, dark blue and red. And thanks

to the urgent sense of modernity that guided the

Castiglionis throughout their careers, the pieces

look just as relevant today as they did back in 1968.

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‘LAPIS’ 11CM VASE IN

CILIEGIA (RED), €120; ‘LAPIS’

20CM VASE IN FUMO (GREY),

€180; ‘LAPIS’ 15CM VASE IN

NOTE (DARK BLUE), €150,

ALL BY ACHILLE AND PIER

GIACOMO CASTIGLIONI,

FOR CEDIT BY FLORIM