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  • The early autumn table

    The early autumn table

    September brings with it the warmth that summer has accumulated, to release it in the warm tones of which nature dresses. Here then is that the leaves are tinged with gold, yellow, ochre, red, the greens intensify and all around…

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    The details that escape: the match-unmatchy set table

    The details that escape: the match-unmatchy set table

    A high table beside a low one.
    A chair different from all the others.
    A mismatched glass.
    A plate from another set.
    An object found, inherited, kept simply because someone loved it.

    I am drawn to this kind of harmony, one that does not come from uniformity.

    In my work, I call it matchy-unmatchy.

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    Summer Tables

    Summer Tables

    Summer has arrived, you can feel it in the air, although this year it has appeared more silently and shyly than usual. After the lockdown, we resumed our habits, but not completely, with some adjustments. In this climate somewhat suspended…

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    Change or transformation?

    Change or transformation?

    During this period of lockdown, our habits have inevitably undergone changes. We are grappling with a pandemic, an occurrence that doesn’t happen every day, to say the least. This state of isolation is prompting us to maintain social connections through…

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    Great Expectations: a space between things

    Great Expectations: a space between things

    Winter, silence, fogged-up windows.
    The scent of cinnamon: the candle.
    The scent of pine: resin and needles.
    A warm cup held between my hands, the one made in Tuscany, with shino glaze.
    A slice of cake.

    Pause.
    Silence.

    A moment in between.

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    Kintsugi: the art of precious scars

    Kintsugi: the art of precious scars

    Kintugi the art of precious scars We all grow up dreaming about a perfect life: deeply fulfilling work, harmonious family life, stimulating friendship. But life has the habit of giving us shots so we sometimes look at pieces of our…

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    MANUELA METRA

    Manuela Metra is a contemporary visual artist and Wabi-Sabi ceramic artist, graduated from the San Luca Academy of Fine Arts. For more than twenty-five years, she has developed an artistic practice that explores the visceral power of matter through contemporary sculpture, Zen aesthetics, and transformative processes. Her work is shaped using natural stoneware, wild clay, and pigments prepared by hand.

    She is the founder of Celadon – Wabi Sabi Academy, a space devoted to the study of ceramics, material experimentation, and the exploration of the relationship between earth, water, and form.