The porcelain ware by Coralla Maiuri transcends the limits of design. Her unique, unrepeatable pieces are shaped by a myriad of inspirations and are created through daring experimentation in material and colours
by Marta Bernasconi - ph. courtesy by Coralla Maiuri
The creation of the brand reflects Coralla Maiuri’s artistic style, which embraces different expressive forms. Porcelain, fabrics, silk and precious metals play a significant role. A range of offers that combines fashion, art and design
orcelain ware that seems to spring from a fairytale or be the result of a magic spell. Plates, bowls, jugs, vases, jars and centrepieces embody the artist’s experience and imagination, evoking memories of the countryside of the Lazio region where she grew up. She then began to draw on the energy of the Baroque style she encountered during her first sojourn in Rome. In 2017 Coralla Maiuri founded the artisanal brand along with her husband and a small group of young artists and artisans. Coralla’s talent for ceramics had been evident since her childhood, when she began to nurture her passion for clay and oil colours, creating works that already reflected her artistic vision. The artist favours the delicacy of pastel colours embellished by touches of gold and opalescent tones, a technique that clothes her works with a suffuse luminosity, almost a magical aura.
Coralla Maiuri’s special way of using colour in the Golden Ash collection where the theme of the Baroque, a favourite of the artist, is treated with a lighter, more contemporary touch. The intrinsic uniqueness of manual work is reflected in every piece, created artisanally and decorated by hand
The uniqueness of her entirely hand-decorated creations – for example, her most recent pieces in the Golden Ash collection – evoke the Baroque style but transform it into something light and contemporary. The name is a reference to the artist’s ability to play with the material. Coralla Maiuri describes the creative process behind her objects in this way: “As I was blowing on extremely thin leaves of gold, I saw ashes dancing in the air. When the gold is still fresh on the porcelain I break it up, split it, let it set through secret alchemical methods – that’s how the Baroque reveals itself in its lightest, least physical essence, a state of the spirit where there’s room for light, for falling snow, for floating pollen”. Artisanal work lies at the basis of every piece, whose personality is based on the harmony between colours, something that is reborn on every porcelain object.
The brand featured in the exhibition MoscaPartners Variations during the recent Milan Design Week. In the setting of the historic Palazzo Litta, guests visiting the “Stanza di Coralla” were immersed in a chamber of wonders, surrounded by light and the colours of porcelain on a fairy-tale table, soft silk velvet cushions and shiny steel coffee tables, also part of the catalogue.
A dramatic setting showcasing porcelain collections that transform the table into an art installation. corallamaiuri.com