PANTÀLICA SIDE TABLE BY NICOLÒ SPINELLI

PANTÀLICA SIDE TABLE
BY NICOLÒ SPINELLI

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LIMITED EDITION 12
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PANTÀLICA COLLECTION
YEAR 2025

NATURAL OR DARK STAINED CHERRY

IN H 18.8 Ø 20.4
CM H 48 Ø 52

CUSTOM SIZE OR FINISH ON REQUEST

HANDCRAFTED IN ITALY

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The Pantàlica series by Spinelli draws inspiration from the necropolis of Pantàlica in southeastern Sicily, a vast natural and archaeological site where thousands of rock-cut tombs hewn into limestone cliffs—a vast natural and archaeological palimpsest where human history and geological time converge. Capturing a sense of both staggering monumentality and tender intimacy, The collection transforms this wondrous and haunting landscape into sculptural furniture works that are at once functional and architectural

Solid timber, dyed a deep black, becomes the medium through which the primal monumental character of Pantalica is reimagined. Surfaces are manually brutalized through planing and irregular carving, echoing the raw, time-worn presence of rock shaped by both erosion and human intervention. The resulting forms are not polished into submission but retain the marks of their making, carrying forward the traces of labor and touch

At the heart of each work lies an excavation: voids carved into the wood as an abstracted memory of the caves and tombs of Pantalica. These are not random gestures but deliberate geometries, where rational order emerges through repetition and serial patterning. Negative space becomes as charged as mass, evoking the silent interiors of the necropolis where shadow, light, and absence resonate

The spirit of the series is illuminated by Vincenzo Consolo’s reflection in Le Pietre di Pantalica: “There is always a shadow that appears behind a ruin stone between a tree and a dirt column. There is always a voice that wants to tell: ‘Look, the world was all this, stop and listen, it won’t last much longer, see, it has already disappeared’”

Handcrafted in Italy, Spinelli’s Pantàlica becomes an elegy and a meditation, at once austere and imaginative, rooted in history yet alive with possibility

 

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Nicolò Spinelli

Born Como, Italy, 1985

An Italian Artist, Spinelli creates achingly poetic and architectural sculptural works. He embraces the idea of artist as philosopher, resolute in his belief that a slow, deep, and intentional practice of creation is an act of resistance in a shallow information age. Foregrounding dynamism and fluidity in process over a specific vision of product, Spinelli’s works are nonetheless singular in their integrity, at once intimateLY expressive and passionately researched. He conceives of his works as transformative tools to activate an emotional and intellectual response in the viewer. His works function as poetry, Inviting us to introspection and to become keen interpreters of our own experience

Trained as an architect, SPinelli graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2012. that same year, he received a Master’s degree in Rome, specializing in Architecture and archeology. In 2014, Spinelli founded his atelier in Monza, Italy, a city renowned for its rich history of heritage craftsmanship. His work has been featured in premier design publications and at leading art and design fairs

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