We were born and raised in contact with marble, metal and ceramic workshops, but at the same time we have a training as designers. Our way of approaching the project is very closely bound up with our two opposed and complementary personalities, in one case more design-based and conceptual in the other more material and artistic. It is antithesis that enhances the material, with the project evolving and maturing in it. The hand perceives the transition from smooth to eroded and one can read the three-dimensional movement of erosion on the sheet metal, De Castelli’s distinctive hallmark. The surface finishes of the products are inspired by the sediments of the molten metal as if they were natural erosions. Here the experimentation lay in the search for a surface finish that approached the spontaneous, unpredictable behavior of casts. We pay close attention to the sensory qualities of projects through surface contrasts. Alike yet different elements are repeated in a delicate spatial interplay of voids and solids. The projects that reach companies are then the evolution, the synthesis, of processes, details and research begun in the laboratory.įor instance, in Monolìte and Sinestesia we find an interplay of repetition and reflection, with a more serial character, if you like, that dovetails with the company’s extreme technical craftsmanship. Self-production is the supreme testing ground, freer as it is often independent and less bound up with productive and commercial logic.
There is a continuous interweaving between self-production and seriality: they’re closely correlated. We have a vision of the project that creates scope for experimentation and opens up new expressive and emotional worlds. We see each project as the result of the process that generated it, the form simply becomes the output of research.
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