Founded in February 1999 in Torino, Italy.
C L A Y A R T produces indoor and outdoor furniture.
C L A Y A R T: clay + art, clay is the material, art is the moulding power.
Cohabitation of earth and art, as practice and theory, allows a special,
peculiar production:
refined objects from materials that are considered 'coarse' in the common
imaginary.
Sensitiveness towards natural, traditional, ecologic materials is reaching
a wide public.
C L A Y A R T wants to bring the opposits together: art andmarket, design
and production,
natural and artificial, scrap and resource, abstract and concrete needs.
Our workshop, toghether with ELASTICO,
ELASTICO DISEGNO and the art of Cesario
Carena,
recovers clay clods, semi-manufactured and discarted products, giving
them intellectual and
physical support, with ideas and legs. Instead of discarting the mistakes
of the machine,
we give them a chance of evolution, a survival possibility in the habitat
of production,
of architecture and interior design, in order to enrich the species of
'terracotta'.