Bottega d’Arte, the most ‘artisanal’ brand of the Iris Ceramica Group, is one of the protagonists of Clerkenwell Design Week 2024 (May 21-23). In its own London ICG Gallery (Old Street 61-67) and in the charming rooms of the Old Sessions House (Room 4, 23 Clerkenwell Green), Bottega in Bloom will be an interactive workshop where visitors will be the ones to create and shape Bottega d’Arte’s distinctive red paste with real flowers, for a collective work that touches on some of the themes dear to the Emilian company: art, circularity of material and sustainability. To accompany this initiative, the Hacked Surfaces workshop will be held daily at 5:30 pm on the second floor of the ICG Gallery.
The program does not end there: to test visitors’ manual dexterity and creativity, there will also be a wax studio workshop, Atelier delle Cere. Under the guidance of artist Lola Lely, participants will shape wax with real flowers to create striking and personalized forms, in a kind of ‘suspension in time’ where flowers trapped in wax take on a new meaning.
Iris Ceramica Group is an eclectic company, the brands that make up the group are very different and each has a precise mission: Bottega d’Arte was founded in 1961 with the aim of promoting artisan ceramics and ancient know-how through a physical relationship with the material and its characteristics. Bottega d’Arte finds a place of excellence among the hyper-technological brands of the Group and represents the link between the past and the future of ceramics and the company.
