Quinto Quarto is a collection of porcelain tableware and food supports made through the molding of animal caul fat, the omentum
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ORTOGONALE is a study and laboratory of contemporary design and craftsmanship specialized in the production of small series and limited editions born between Italy and Berlin by Rossella Flammia and Paolo Picone as an offshoot of Studio Mondocubo. ORTHOGONAL is the synthesis between design and manual skills, between architecture and craftsmanship, between the theory of Vitruvius and the practice of craftsmanship. From praxis to theory through a process that realizes its design component of reference in the manufacturing techniques and "work", and which finds its own political reason in the real economy, in small businesses, in the safeguarding of jobs in extinction.
"Joy in labor" wrote William Morris more than a hundred years ago, a re-appropriation through manual work and craftsmanship of rhythms, more appropriate and more sustainable lifestyles, and a greater awareness of resources and what is produced .
In 2020 ORTOGONALE moves to Italy and opens its new atelier in Carife, a small town in the heart of the Irpinia Apennines in southern Italy.