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Madia Maiolica
A solid oak storage cabinet with maiolica handles. Two traditional Italian crafts in one object: the joiner supplies the structure, the potter the touch.
The plate that opens in four
The handle is an Italian maiolica plate — divided into four quarters, one on each door leaf.
Closed, the four pieces reassemble: the plate is whole. Open, each quarter works on its own and the cabinet resolves into four separate doors. The piece therefore shows that it is shut; order is a visible state rather than an assumption.
The geometry is not decoration. The bevelled rim and concave curve of the plate take the fingers by themselves — that is the grip. There is no separate handle, because the form is the handle.
The material
The structure is solid oak throughout. The front elevation is a balanced timber grid: every panel sits in its own frame, and the structure is not concealed. The central vertical divider is both a compositional and a structural element — it is what holds the plane of the doors across 2.1 metres.
Maiolica is tin-glazed earthenware, one of the founding genres of the Italian Renaissance. The city of Faenza gave its name to the French word faïence.
To order
Made to order. Maiolica is a handmade product: the flow of the glaze and the shade of the colour differ from piece to piece. [email protected]
Specification
- Name
- Madia Maiolica
- Width
- 2,100 mm
- Height
- 1,900 mm
- Depth
- 600 mm
- Foot height
- 300 mm
- Doors
- 4, with central vertical divider
- Structure
- Solid oak
- Handle
- Traditional Italian maiolica, R 100 mm
- Ironmongery
- Soft-close hinges
- Design
- Ren Design
- To order
- Made to order
Size and proportion
The central divider gathers the 2.1-metre width, and the 300 mm plinth lifts the body clear of the floor — so the 1.9-metre height reads as a standing structure rather than a block.
The four plates sit where the doors meet: the place you take hold of is also the place it opens.