Floating Cities
The Floating Cities are suspended wooden sculptures. They are completely handmade, by myself. The finish is gold, silver or copper leaf. Lights makes them useful for lighting as lamps or chandeliers. Shades of color increase the suspension effect. Each Floating City is entirely built with my hands, for this reason it is possible to design and make them in variable sizes and colours, and it is also possible to choose between gold, silver or copper leaf. Le Floating Cities sono frutto di una personalissima urgenza espressiva. Qualche tempo fa ascoltai una intervista realizzata a...
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Silent lamps are completely made of wood. Every lamp is hand made by Umberto Dattola simply rolling and carving sheets of popolar wood. Every piece is unique, signed and numbered. Measure: H 190 cm light: spherical energy saving led lamp 40W/120W. Materials: Sheets of poplar plywood, and solid lemon tree. Finishing: natural oil. Thanks to the inside lamp that light the wood grain, the carved wood that plays with lights and shadows, the Silent Lamp is able to create a warm and dreaming atmosphere. Switched of the Silent lamp is also a sculpture during the day, the original shape and...
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Cabinet composed by small houses with natural branches. It is hand gilded with gold leaf. The ultimate versione has pulls made of red corall. . . . … “To distinguish the other cities’ qualities, I must speak of a first city that remains implicit. For me it is Venice”…I strongly loved “Invisibile Cities” by Italo Calvino. In this book an idea that leads my work is expressed: there is an inner space in our souls, where jealously is preserved a spatial and aestethic ideal model, an invisibile city that is the yardstick to our taste about spaces,places or simply...
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A collection of items of furniture from the past, reconceived starting with their destruction: after being taken apart, sideboards become chairs, dressers support bookshelves; through an handcraft work old things turn into different. Dissolutions is a collection created by Umberto Dattola that investigates the existential breakdown, the horizons and perspectives that we are experiencing at this particular time in history and some still insist on calling a crisis. The collapse of a system of values and reading of reality that is dissolving extraordinarily fast, querying the solidity...
Read MoreEVNI: feelings of things
“An Unidentified Life-Giving Event (EVNI is the acronym of Evento Vivificante Non Identificato) allows things to take life assuming other forms. Objects move in harmony with the passions of the owners of these objects. The event appears inexplicable. The investigation begin studying people, their experiences and the bonds between people and objects. The result is a passionate research on the sentiments of things.From this concept born furnitures that can change shapes, growing to the sky, with long legs, becoming art sculptures. Every piece is accompanied with an intimate story...
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