Fioraio
Guido Venturini, Fioraio 1
Guido Venturini, Fioraio 2
Guido Venturini, Fioraio
Fioraio
This can be considered part of the tradition of anthropomorphic vases, always present in the history of everyday objects, with an ornamental or symbolic value: from the Palaeolithic to the Renaissance, and from Chagall to Picasso.
The vase is cut at the shoulders, and thus headless. It should be finished by inserting flowers, but if you forget, for a few days you can enjoy the splendid material-animalier-abstract decoration. In any case, the periods without flowers should not be too long, at least in the spring.
Guido Venturini
Guido Venturini, Fioraio. “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011
Guido Venturini, Fioraio. “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011
Guido Venturini, Fioraio. “Ospiti inaspettati”; Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milan Design Week 2010
Guido Venturini, Fioraio. “Handmade in Albisola”, Triennale di Milano, Milan Design Week 2007
The Fioraio by Guido was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the following exhibitions: “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007; “Ospiti inaspettati”; Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milan Design Week 2010; “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011; “Ultrabody”, Castello Sforzesco, Milan Design Week 2012.
Puzzola
Guido Venturini, Puzzola
Cagarino
Guido Venturini, Cagarino
Polecat and Little Pooper
To avoid dangerous falls, and consequently getting stuck in the family toilet, I created this comfortable cagheuse (poop house) for children. I thought of enhancing the object by using a premium material like ceramic, fully aware of the extreme importance attributed to faeces during the pre-verbal age and the years immediately following such a period (in these uncivil times it is customary to do it in a plastic container, that when it is scratched also retains gems and bacteria, with the imaginable consequences for hygiene!).
Presently, two decorative versions are available: Polecat, a cute allusion to the foul-smelling animal that marks its territory, a symptom and consequence of the operation in progress; and Little Pooper, to dream of dives or flying bombardments on not very nice imaginary people passing under our branch. Not for adults.
Guido Venturini
Guido Venturini, Puzzola. “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007
Puzzola by Guido Venturini was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the exhibition “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007
Cagarino by Guido Venturini was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.
