The act of cultivating is the first action that man performs on nature modifying it to his own advantage; but it is also the beginning of an artificial process based on a plan whose object is the natural element. The history of this island has seen the presence of a number of monasteries, as testified by the remains of the central cloister of La Certosa, as well as of an ancient hortus conclusus, the protected space that was the heart of the monks’ lives, where vegetables were grown as a source of nourishment. Starting from this, Studio Ossidiana has imagined an enclosure that establishes a limit, a threshold partly to be crossed and partly not to be crossed. As in an ancient seedbed, the arable land is protected within a structure made of Alcantara, which fulfills the primordial function of protection. Thus this contemporary material, used for the first time in the world of Design in its special recycled version, safeguards and protects a nature cultivated by man.

Text by Domitilla Dardi