We are proud to announce that FaddaSantos has been commissioned by The Design Museum to design a site-specific installation for the Tank space.
Elements of Production is a site-specific installation displaying the aesthetic qualities of a household product and the hidden technical elements of its mass manufacturing process. Presenting the Gemme range displayed as 20 abstract place settings on an oversized dining table, the weight of the granules in the table correlates to the material used to manufacture the number of bowls on show.
The table contains polymer granules inserted within the polycarbonate sheets. The polymer SAN has excellent light emission characteristics and resembles glass beads. This raw material is injection-moulded to create the Gemme set, comprising of four-sized bowls, available in five colours. The injection-moulding machine is represented in a graphic vinyl of 4 meters length.
Materials and scale belonging to the industrial production are juxtaposed to those of the domestic environment. By creating an abstract environment linking manufacturing and consumption, the installation reveals the hidden technical aspects of the product design process.

The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Guzzini/Italy.

Curator: Margaret Cubbage.

CONTACT press@faddasantos.com

PROJECT’S PAGE Elements of Production

LINKS Design Museum / Guzzini

IMAGES Flickr

ARTICLES Matandme / designd

Following 4 years of collaboration, Caterina Fadda and Fran Santos will be trading under one name. The design services offered will remain product and furniture design for brand manufacturers and department stores.
Further exhibitions and installations are also planned for 2010.

The new premises are located in Southern Row W10 close to the Trellik Tower.
We wish to thank the following companies + friends for helping to create the new interiors: SolidFloor, Khrystian Witeck, Omid Moallemi.

The new website has been conceived and coded by Jerome Rigaud and implemented by Hye Ryoung Cheon.

CONTACT’S PAGE New Address

LINKS New Website / Map

Caterina Fadda and Fran Santos will take part in the exhibition ‘Prototypes and Experiments 03’ at The Aram Gallery from 16th July till 5th September 2009.

The third cycle will also include work by &Made, Roger Arquer, Jorre van Ast, Shin Azumi, Max Frommeld, Alex Hellum, Jamily, Ronen Kadushin, Gabriel Klasmer, André Klauser, Max Lamb, Michael Marriott, Pearson Lloyd, Damien Poulain, TextFields, Nina Tolstrup and Vandasye.

Prototypes and Experiments will include selected drawings alongside the pieces taken from the designers’ physical or digital sketchbooks.

Curator: Daniel Charny, 
Assistant Curator: Ellie Parke, 
Gallery Director: Zeev Aram.

PROJECT’S PAGE Gemme

LINKS The Aram Gallery

ARTICLES Designboom

Gemme salad set designed for Fratelli Guzzini succeeds in red dot design award.

With its outstanding and innovative design, the Gemme salad set succeeded in one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions worldwide.
In the red dot award: product design competition the Gemme salad set was awarded the “red dot” quality seal for high design quality by the top-class expert jury.

PROJECT’S PAGE Gemme salad set

LINKS reddot design awards

ARTICLES Domus / Interni / Posudka

Caterina Fadda and Fran Santos will take part of Prototypes & Experiments’ at Aram Gallery, London from February 12th to April 11th.

This cycle will also feature; Roger Arquer, Shin Azumi, Georg Baldele, Carl Clerkin, Nigel Coates, Gitta Gschwendtner, Demelza Hill, Yaacov Kaufman, Andre Klauser, Tomas Kral, Max Lamb, Tomek Rygalik, Rolf Sachs, Nina Tolstrup and Ben Wilson.

Curator Daniel Charny, 
Assistant Curator Ellie Parke,
 Director Zeev Aram.

PROJECT’S PAGE Sasso light

LINKS The Aram Gallery

ARTICLES Wallpaper* / Matandme

Fratelli Guzzini launches the Gemme cutlery at Ambiente/Frankfurt and MaisonObjet/Paris.
This new product expands the original Gemme range launched the previous year with the salad bowls and servers.

PROJECT’S PAGE Gemme cutlery

LINKS Guzzini