“Looking at this initial collection of urns for Il Tornitore Matto, I can’t help but notice the secular discipline the designers have maintained in shaping such an unusual and delicate object: no cliched styling, no resort to easy and lazy formal definitions, no superfluous decorative additions, no reference to sacred or, worse still, cemetery art. Everything has been carried out under the banner of an important word: respect for the function these vessels serve.” — Giulio Iacchetti
Conceived by Alberto Alessi with Giulio Iacchetti, Il Tornitore Matto was born as a place for experimental research in the field of Applied Arts. A project desired by Alberto Alessi to investigate new territories where designer and entrepreneur are free to independently establish the rules of the creative process.
The Last Pot is the second chapter of Il Tornitore Matto, born from an idea of the designer trio EOOS, and brings together the projects of ten designers - Michael Anastassiades, David Chipperfield, Michele De Lucchi, EOOS, Naoto Fukasawa, Giulio Iacchetti, Audrey Large, Daniel Libeskind, Philippe Starck, Mario Tsai - who have grappled with the theme of the cinerary urn. A collection of objects almost in motion, that lose the fixity of the eternal to find their place in our daily domestic life: objects to embrace, stack, read, water, incense... that thus find their natural place in life.
The book is enriched by the authorial texts of Andrea Staid, Valeria Parrella, Igiaba Scego and Giulia Ubaldi, and the photographs by Claudia Zalla, developed
together with Studio Testo.
