Archive of the Category 'Behind the scenes'

To mark the Blog Action Day 2009, which is focussing on the theme of climate change and Global Warming, it only seems right for us to say a few words on the environmental issues associated with the ceramic production.

In recent years, the parent company of DesignTaleStudio, Refin Ceramiche, has focused on environmental issues. From the Eco-Leader and Stone-Leader collections, whose production process complies with the stringent LEED rating system, to important initiatives with architects, such as “The Sustainable Project”. A stance perfectly summarised in our mini-website We Care, on-line since last spring.

It is also important to underline that DesignTaleStudio, with its craftsmanship vocation, is intrinsically linked to the environmental issues , as can be seen, for instance, in the reduction of emissions and the impact of transport. We believe the only answer in these difficult times , is creativity: keeping only the good part of the industrial model, that is to say, that associated with design and quality, trying, at the same time, to find original solutions, a new “canvas” where environmental concern is indeed a burden but is, and above all, a creative push.

Suffice to say just think of the different forms of recycled art, or in the field of ceramics, the artist Sarah Cihat and her “Rehabilitated Dishware Collection” of second-hand plates, which she re-paints and re-fires. The theme of recycling, a fundamental issue if we are to have an impact on climate change, becomes crucial in the aesthetics which “remixes” the old to create the new.