Coppa Camuna
The Coppa Camuna stems from the designer’s fascination with the age-old tradition of ironworking rooted in the Valle Camonica, located in the Central Alps between the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo. In Bienno, the ‘village of a thousand forges’, where this archaic craftsman’s knowledge is preserved, Iacchetti found those who could help him develop the project for an iron container. Thus was born a dialogue between the designer and the craftsmen of Bienno, a joint journey that gradually led from an initial design to an initial shape and from this – in a sort of evolution of the species – to the final artefact.
The Coppa Camuna has an apparently brutalist form that recalls that of a war helmet but
turned upside down towards the sky, transformed into a container ready to hold a flower
or to become an instrument of offering. An extraordinary subversion of meaning, in other
words, that converts a symbol of war into an artefact of offering. The production process
in turn contains a passage of meaning, from strength to offering: the iron, turned with
powerful energy and then passed through fire for the final treatment with wax, becomes
a poetic object to contain, as its designer says, “the things of life”.
##SPECIFICATION##
Centrepiece. Turned carbon steel sheet with beeswax coating. Limited series of 999 numbered pieces.
