A simple ring and unconventional sails made tenses by the material: precious metal. And then the reference to an ancient game. A breath of wind creates a dance of tiles which falling down bring magic and amazement. A mathematical harmony, accidental and magnificent.
And in addition to this, the memory of the architectures and their intrepid and majestic structure, but also the contemporary and imaginative shrewdness of Santiago Calatrava and of the great and unforgettable Oscar Niemeyer. This is what comes to the mind when observing DOMINO. The references to the nature through the architectural elements are mixed in such a dynamic way that they make the design vibrant for contrast.
The singularity of this piece is that it makes movable something that is static for necessity. This wonderful mutability originates from material fragments looking for a new identity that don’t deserve to end as ‘production waste’. It is the process of an acute and courageous sensitivity which has been able to glimpse an active value in the copious ‘scraps’ resulting from the production process.
These ‘scraps’, these ‘sails,’ are shaped elegantly. The corners are rounded, the surfaces are polished on several occasions and the finishing are improved from the black of titanium, to the bronze and to the red of the precious copper. This game of colors plays with the light that makes the surface move defining an object which – alone – donate to the environment a distilled of perfection. An architecture that narrates civilisation and culture in a timeless artisan dimension. An aspiration to which Zanetto is deeply attached because it expresses the stratification of knowledge and its ability to renew itself while keeping the threads of memory intact. The beauty of making and leaving a trace lies precisely in creating objects capable of interpreting their own contemporaneity and, at the same time, being beyond it. It is the evocative power of the image. #centerpiece #masterpieces