2013 

Piraeus Design Collection

Tableware objects,

made of olive wood and white Tinian marble

Construction place, Tinos

The objects made from olive wood and Tinian marble were designed primarily for the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation. The design was inspired by our furniture collection “Poetics of Matter” – Tinos Design project. Conceptually, the beginning for this design project was Martin Bouber’s work ‘I and Though’, the dialogue, ‘the meeting, the connection-bridging.’: the meeting of ‘warm timber’ and ‘cold marble’. The collection, at the moment, consists of ‘salt & pepper’ and ‘plates’. In the wooden vessel there is ‘pepper shaker’ and in the crystallized marble there are ‘salt crystals’. The two quadrilateral shapes of the plates connect at their diagonal side, where there the two materials meet.

The objects were available at the shops of the Piraeus Foundation Museums and the shop in Athens at the Spyromiliou Stoa, No 21 at the groundfloor. Also at the Benaki Museum Shop, 1 Koumpary Str. & Vas. Sofias Av. and at Skoufa Gallery in Kolonaki, Athens, until 2018.

Plates

Olive wood and Tinos’ white marble

W: 43 cm D: 16,2 cm H: 2,9 cm

Olive wood and Tinos' grey marble

W: 38 cm D: 7,8 cm H: 1,2 cm

Salt & Pepper

Olive wood and Tinos’ white marble

W: 12,6 cm D: 4,8 cm H: 4,8 cm
 

Project Team
Industrial design: Maria Vidali
Photography: Markisia Armaou