NUMA - REVERSED ROUND TABLE
Centerpiece in pewter ø cm 30.5x8.5 h, limited edition of 49 pieces. Hand-finished pewter casting with soldering and polishing operations with a brush. Plate in blown Murano glass. The tables are six large centerpieces in limited edition, in pewter or pewter and blown glass "designed to give meaning to the table and make it more magical and ritualistic.” Extraordinary interpretations by Ettore Sottsass of traditional materials, in the strongly iconographic language that characterizes the great master. Ettore Sottsass's design journey takes us, in 2004, to the meeting of the lightness and color of Murano glass with the strong architectural construction of the pewter parts. The transparency of the glass does not conceal the structure of the metal; it discreetly contains and protects the good fruits and offers them to our desire as a precious good. The IV collection of NUMA consists of six pieces, six centerpieces that tell us the joy and pleasure of thinking about objects that will accompany us in our gestures and daily rituals, becoming a happy part of our everyday life. "Pewter is an ancient metal alloy: tin, copper, lead... what is produced with this alloy is immobile, solid, heavy. Contemporary pewter no longer contains lead, which gave objects a dark, medieval, Germanic surface: this alloy instead contains antimony; thus, brilliant objects similar to silver are created, which do not lose their immobility and presence." Ettore Sottsass Pewter is an ancient material that has been worked in Europe since the early 1500s, casting a tin alloy into engraved iron or brass molds, and subsequently working it with the techniques of corrosion and hammering to obtain shapes of traditional craftsmanship. Contemporary pewter, the protagonist of the Numa collections, is a noble alloy in every respect, with extraordinary characteristics of ductility and great plastic yield. Contemporary Pewter is made up of a composite of metals, with the absolute exclusion of lead; it therefore maintains the distinctive peculiar characteristics and great plastic yield; it is absolutely hygienic and can be used to produce serving objects for the table and kitchen, as well as, of course, for all decorative items. Material: Pewter is an alloy composed of tin and small amounts of antimony and copper. Due to its ductility, it has been used by humans since ancient times to create common-use objects. In more recent centuries, tin was combined with a percentage of lead, which was soon banned due to its toxicity. The pewter used to create Numa objects is an alloy composed of 95% tin, and the absolute absence of lead makes it fully compliant with the EN-611/1 standard of the EEC. Processing phases: The first operation related to the production cycle is the purchase of raw material in bars or sheets of pewter already ready to be melted, or the purchase of bars or sheets of tin, wires or bars of copper and antimony, which, melted in the appropriate melting furnace at a temperature of 250-300° C, yield pewter. The molten metal is manually poured using a ladle into rubber molds. These molds are mounted on centrifuges: machines that rotate the mold during the pouring and drying phase of the alloy. After the drying phase, the operator extracts the product, which is then deburred with scissors and ground. For pieces that need it, manual assembly follows through tin soldering. The pieces are then manually placed in vibrators, where they remain for about 2 hours. The vibration smooths the surface of the object using water and ceramic inserts (inert material). Upon exiting the vibrators, the pieces are checked and possibly straightened using rubber hammers. After this phase, the final hand polishing phase follows using brushes. Each individual piece is finally stamped with the designer's signature, the Numa logo, and its numbering. N.B. All processing phases are carried out by highly specialized craftsmen at the workshop of Master pewterer Alfredo Marinoni, Cellatica (BS).
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