The series of objects in white porcelain created by Matteo Thun for Memphis enters the designer’s family tradition of pottery craftsmanship, while at the same time updating that tradition with a sort of “humorous anti-functionalism.” The Kariba fruit stand (1982) plays with a diagonal slope that generates an apparently precarious balance, compensated by the triangular upper part.
Hand-turned and hand-shaped white porcelain fruit bowl with kiln-sublimated decorative decals.
