From the archive, the 1993 Cartoccio bowl by San Lorenzo captures a singular moment in Italian design. Defined by its crumpled, folded silhouette—evoking a sheet of metal gathered and drawn upward—its hammered surface animates the pure silver with shifting light and shadow. Developed through Ciro Cacchione’s collaboration with Afra and Tobia Scarpa, the husband-and-wife duo renowned for their rigorous material sensibility, the piece reflects San Lorenzo’s conviction that function is the genesis of form.
From the archive, the 1993 Cartoccio bowl by San Lorenzo captures a singular moment in Italian design. Defined by its crumpled, folded silhouette—evoking a sheet of metal gathered and drawn upward—its hammered surface animates the pure silver with shifting light and shadow. Developed through Ciro Cacchione’s collaboration with Afra and Tobia Scarpa, the husband-and-wife duo renowned for their rigorous material sensibility, the piece reflects San Lorenzo’s conviction that function is the genesis of form.