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The project
Piano Grezzo begins with a simple question: how can we act on everyday life through artistic practice?
After years devoted to sculpture and the visual arts, I began to see in design a way to bring aesthetic research out of exhibition spaces and into the places we live in every day.
If art has the power to change the way we see the world, design can transform the way we live in it.
Piano Grezzo is where these two dimensions meet.
The process
Every object takes shape through the same process as a work of art: observation, research, experimentation and attention to the relationships between forms, materials, colours, light and volume. There is no sharp separation between artistic gesture and functional design; rather, a will to give aesthetic value to the things that accompany everyday life.
Piano Grezzo objects do not seek to tell a story or to impose themselves as symbols. They exist to occupy a space, to converse with light, to shift an atmosphere, to suggest a presence.
They are the result of a research that connects artistic sensibility with craftsmanship, imagination with technique.
Singularity
In an age dominated by mass reproduction, Piano Grezzo chooses singularity. Each piece is born as an autonomous project — one of a kind, or made in extremely limited editions — keeping the traces of the process that generated it and the unrepeatable character of things made with care.
More than a brand, Piano Grezzo is a workshop of possibilities. A space open to collaboration with artists, designers and makers, united by the desire to make everyday life a place of research, beauty and experience.
“… Because the objects that surround us are not merely tools but part of the landscape we inhabit every day.”
Giuseppe La Tona — 1997
Born in Palermo, he lives and works in Ventimiglia di Sicilia (PA). He trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo.
“I don't want to design objects, but relationships between people, space and matter.”