Two materials coming together, two worlds finding fulfillment in a project that expresses industrial capability and artisanal attention to detail to create a mythological object born from the creativity of its creator and the courage of antoniolupi in accepting challenges. There are many themes and values in the freestanding sink Teti, which indeed arises from the encounter of different entities. There is the theme of dialogue and the coupling of two materials different in characteristics and processing types, there is the explicit declaration of this encounter, there is the strength and tension expressed in a functional detail that becomes the distinctive feature of the project, becoming aesthetic and decoration.
A round basin in AISI 316 stainless steel, pure, clear, absolute, hygienic, and unalterable. A column in Dark-Stained Chestnut or Canaletto walnut wood, composed of vertical modules held together by a metal “stitch.” Slats that run along the entire height of the body and open up like in a tree, assuming a trapezoidal shape in the part that covers the sink, to wrap around, defend, and support the steel and the precious content it holds. An image that expresses all the natural strength of wood, which protects like bark the vital sap represented by water. But also, a sign that implies the possibility for humans to intervene with an intertwining that recomposes the original matter into a new form.
