Entry Title: " Bucchero"
Company: Atelier Siba Sahabi , Netherlands
Category: Professional, Media
Designer(s): Siba Sahabi


Entry Description:

Tableware Sculptures - Bucchero

The production of paper is a fleeting enterprise, used almost entirely for spreading information or for packaging. Countless forests today are flattened to live up to this demand. Siba views paper in a different light: instead of a means to an end, she sees paper as a valuable, durable material to revive our cultural inheritance. The series portayed is inspired by the characteristic black Bucchero wares of ancient Etruscan ceramics. The series comprises several pieces - carafes, goblets and cups - which are hand-crafted from paper. This new use for paper allows the viewer to see an everyday product from a different angle, no longer as something to be taken for granted. The time and care invested in the develpment of these objects confronts today throwawaway culture.

Siba Sahabi (Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Amsterdam, 2006) is a poetic designer.
Drawing from her German/Iranian roots,
the work of Siba aims to show how one
culture can influence another, leading
to renewal and cultural richness. Her
tableware sculptures, fashioned from
paper, are inspired by the European and
Middle Eastern history of ceramics. A
passion for crafts and imperfection
drives the process of Siba's work.

Awards
First price: Most Remarkable Repair
Contest, Platvorm 21, Amsterdam, 2009
First price: Comeseedo, Berlin, 2005

Book publications
Papercraft 2, publisher Gestalten, Germany
21th Century Dutch Design, publisher
d'Jonge Hond, The Netherlands
The New Artisans, publisher Thames &
Hudson, England
Green Design publisher Braun, Germany
Curatorial Cooking // The Design
practice of Platform21, publisher ArtEZ
Press in collaboration with Premsela,
The Netherlands
Papercraft, publisher Gestalten, Germany
Paper Art, publisher Artpower
International Publish Co, China

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