MEDITERRANEO FRUIT HOLDER Chinesische Geschichte and Colefax & Fowler

and Colefax & Fowler

"the vase gives form to emptiness": ever since the earliest human civilizations

and yet familiar means of visual communication

previously unseen photoworks and drawings

making exquisite artefacts and stunning installations out of common detritus and everyday waste

MEDITERRANEO FRUIT HOLDER Chinesische Geschichte and Colefax & FowlerOnce upon a time, coral could be found all over the mediterranean and it was exported across the world in exchange for spices and perfumes. Designer Emma Silvestries has skillfully explored the imagery of the sea world to create this basket, which embodies the essential forms and levity of the organisms that populate the ocean. Designed in 2004, this basket paved the ways for the Mediterraneo series.