The Ellipse soap dish is created from a single, perfect circle of Bianco Carrara marble. A smooth, shallow depression has been hollowed out of the stone, highlighting the natural grey and white cloudiness of the marble. Finished by hand in Salvatori’s Tuscan workshop, this smooth-edged vessel adds a touch of elegant design to any bathroom. The Ellipse collection is a family of vessels and utensils for the home designed by long-time Salvatori collaborator John Pawson. Sharing a geometry and materiality – each piece is shaped from a continuous piece of Bianco Carrara marble – the collection is typical of Pawson’s expressive, minimal style: the simple forms of the vessels evoking a sense of calm and a spirituality. Note The technique used to create the soft, sinuous curves of each piece in the Ellipse collection replicates that of stones on a riverbed smoothed over the centuries by the relentless flow of water. The tiny holes that may appear in the surface of the stone are a natural characteristic of this process and should not be considered a flaw.
