The "Plumage" collection heralded a revival of wall coverings with its decorative mosaics, at the crossroads of traditional handcrafted ceramics and contemporary aesthetic research.
Heir to ancestral know-how, Botteganove perpetuates it by anchoring it in contemporary creative research, thanks to the collaboration of designers who endlessly renew the aesthetics of ceramics. The company takes its name from the small Italian town of Nove, in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, where the tradition of artistic ceramics has flourished for nearly four hundred years. It was there, in the 1960s, that the Pegoraro family established their workshop. Their classical production underwent its first major shift in 2010, thanks to Christian Pegoraro, who discovered the craft of ceramics: “I wanted to interpret it with great discipline, to make it a fine and skillful work, made up of small interventions, refinements, details, obsessive repetitions of the same gesture, a quest for perfection . ” Five years later, his collaboration with Cristina Celestino, who had recently opened her interior architecture and design studio in Milan (in 2013), brought his creative vision to fruition, giving birth to Botteganove. Released in 2016, his "Plumage" collection, noted for its innovative character, propelled the brand into the spotlight during Milan Design Week. Working for private residences, hotels, and commercial spaces alike, Cristina Celestino adopts the same playful approach in her creative direction as in her product design.
Observation, erudition, and scientific and aesthetic curiosity guide her as she plays with the traditions and scales of objects to create new, transdisciplinary decorative concepts. Particularly interested in materials and geometry, she has invited nature into the design world by drawing inspiration from bird feathers, which she transforms into two patterns of ceramic or porcelain tiles. Their layering creates the appearance of plumage on the surface thus covered. Hand-shaped in plaster molds, decorated, coated with enamel paint and crystalline substances that give the material an iridescent sheen, and then fired twice, each element can be produced in an infinite number of shades, colors—enhanced by the shimmering metallic effects of gold, platinum, copper, and bronze—and finishes. The limitless combination of their patterns creates graphic harmonies that are by definition unique, giving free rein to the originality of an unexpected design. This traditional craftsmanship, combined with technical research focused on sustainability, can be integrated into more industrial production, enabling the realization of even the most complex custom projects. Since "Plumage," Botteganove has developed ten other ceramic mosaic collections, conceived by its research and design studio led by Christian Pegoraro, and through collaborations with the Zanellato/Bortotto studio, the Studiopepe agency, and designers Adam Nathaniel Furman, Angelo Spagnolo, and Chiara Andreatti. These mosaics adorn the interior walls of buildings and even their exteriors, highlight the height of a stairwell, illuminate a bathroom, embellish a bar, unfold as a decorative frieze, cover a fireplace, or enliven a garden. By artfully elevating clay, Botteganove has transformed it into a truly innovative material.
Botteganove Showroom
Via Molini 88, Nove (Italy)
