Ottimi Errori collection of objects and container structures

Ottimi Errori is a collection of structures, caskets and centrepieces produced in limited edition, numbered and signed.
Caskets and centrepieces are hand-made by pottery artisans: in them there is not even any need to design distortions because the hand of man and the material are sufficient so as not to dry up the form. The technique, from the Etruscan age, is called “bucchero”, and takes place in three exclusively manual phases. The piece is worked on a lathe, then smoothed with boxwood sticks to hone the surface, after which it is baked at a high temperature. It is the baking in charcoal that confers the naturally polished black colour, which defines the forms and makes them complete. These rounded ceramics are inserted harmoniously inside square display cases. The display cases are laser cut and welded together. The obviously imprecise structures are intentional and very difficult to realise. Obtaining the slightly skewed effect required the adoption of advanced construction techniques such as laser cutting and other CNC technologies, which are normally used to achieve straight, regular lines. Michele De Lucchi says: “we had to study them very thoroughly and understand them so deeply in order to succeed in moulding them to suit the realisation of our ottimi errori“.