The Ossimoro washbasin project, designed by the architects Calvi Brambilla, has been addressed with the utmost respect and sense of responsibility towards marble, a material that has always been used in architecture and art. The designers Calvi Brambilla and antoniolupi have tried to approach this project using technological and contemporary means, but with the utmost respect for the past and for a natural resource that is available in a limited quantity. This led to enhance the qualities of the material by creating a unique object.
“The inspiration for Ossimoro came when attending a 2016 exhibition by the Spanish artist who lives and works in London, Angela de la Cruz” tell the designers Calvi Brambilla. The compression effect, wanted by the designers, was born from a clash between parallelepipeds and wanting to make matter fluid. In order to achieve this effect, a new technique was developed, the simulation of compressing a block in 3D.
With the Ossimoro project a new technique has been developed for the realization of the ‘Sculpture’, starting from the idea of a marble sink with the effect of a “soft marble block”, compressed; an almost surreal object. The washbasin is made of Oriental White marble. It is a graceful monolith, a freestanding totem which can be combined with a wall or floor mixer.
Tradition meets technology in a decomposed standardized form, sectioned, intersected by an orthogonal lattice, a cylindrical volume on which the machine has mapped out a clear and definite sign according to a project that leaves open endless possibilities of composition. A freestanding ever-changing sink due to the elimination of pieces imagination can take shape, the image is revealed, the essence comes to light. Lights and shadows, depth and reliefs, combinations and distances, connections and insulation. The pixel game that forms the basin is completely oriented on consequentiality, on proximity, on decorum that comes from the material itself. A gesture, that of subtraction, revealing the shape, which allows you to customize the volume, and which amplifies the three-dimensional design of the project. Pixel is subtraction to compose.
