MATERIA MATER

Materia Mater is Terracotta, a material widely available on earth that is the perfect expression of nature and human ingenuity of a specific place: it embodies its pure essence.

Architetti Artigiani Anonimi aims to enhance the aesthetic and mechanical qualities of terracotta by producing works that emulate architectural systems on a smaller scale: the collection includes a bookcase system consisting of horizontal and vertical terracotta pieces that are inserted into a metal structure; the bookcase emulates an architectural system where the metal structure reinforces the terracotta, that completes its mechanical properties.

The place where Architetti Artigiani Anonimi has chosen to focus its research is the place that has inspired many of these ideas, the Amalfi Coast, where precious and hidden laboratories like Fornace De Martino and Laboratorio Ceramico Santoriello, two well-known kilns located near Salerno continue to collaborate with architects, artists and designers.

For Architetti Artigiani Anonimi, architecture studio founded by Annarita Aversa “product design” is sometimes an instrument to value a hidden human reality or to research solutions for preserving the harmony of an architecture landscape.