Quarter 29

In this edition of Quarter, we feature exciting projects from zynk Design, ConForm Architects, TINTO, and DSK/Ryder, in Manchester, London, Aberdeen, and Birmingham. We present five fantastic new ranges chosen by our Product Manager, Justin Jennings, that capture all that is good in the world of
ceramic design.

We meet Mauro Mazzi, CEO of Mirage, who talks us through the challenges and opportunities that face the ceramic industry as a consequence of rising energy costs and the climate crisis.

We are given a tour of the Mirage plant in Pavullo – a futuristic mega-factory of laser-guided vehicles and alternative energy.

And we travel to Tuscany, to the district of Chianti on pilgrimage to a Temple of Wine. The Antinori Winery at Bargino is a marvel of architecture designed by Archea Associati of Florence and is built into a living hill. Federico Manetti of Cotto Manetti gives us a tour and explains the relationship between terracotta and wine, causing us to ask; if wine is ‘sunlight, held together by water’, is terracotta, ‘earth, held together by fire’?