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Esrawe Studio turns ceramic shapes inside-out to create Fold vessel series
These ceramic vases by Mexico's Esrawe Studio are shaped to show the incremental stages of turning a cylindrical form inside-out.
The 19 items in the Fold homeware range form a set of vases, bowls and plates that are staggered in height and width – each slightly manipulated from the one before.
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"Fold is a conceptual exercise that seeks to give an elastic expression to ceramics," said the studio, founded by designer Hector Esrawe.
"The piece becomes the physical representation of a sequence of actions; the object transforms both aesthetically and functionally."
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The series starts with a simple white near-cylindrical vessel, with a gold-coloured coating inside.
When viewed in sequence, the subsequent vases are shaped so their rims appear to gradually peel down and reveal the metallic interiors.
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The vessels get shorter and the rims become wider until all is left is a flat golden platter.
"The development starts with the basic shape of a cylinder to which we attach a function, eg a vase, until it metamorphoses into another object which takes the function of a plate," the studio said.
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From this middle item, an inverse process is applied to return the ceramics to a vertical shape.
With the metal coating now on the outside, the forms are pulled up from their centres to create pockets of space before finally returning to an almost-perfect cylinder.
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To demonstrate their incremental differences, the pieces were displayed in a row on a long thin table at Mexico City's Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL).
The exhibition took place during the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, held from 19 to 23 October 2016.
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Esrawe Studio was one of Dezeen's five Mexican designers and studios to watch following this year's Design Week Mexico – also in October.
Its other products range from perfume bottles created using stacked hemispheres to a collection of brass and wood lights that are controlled by sliding or pivoting elements.
Photography is by Pablo Da Ronco.