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About SCULPTAVI
An espresso cup is the size of a palm. That happens to be the size of a small sculpture, so that is how we design them.
Four rooms of form
Every piece in the collection belongs to one of four families, which we call rooms, as in a gallery:
- Room I · Pleat. Walls folded like paper, so light runs down every crease.
- Room II · Facet. Flat planes cut into the body; each side holds a different shade of the same glaze.
- Room III · Melt. Rims and feet that look as if they are softening, fixed at the moment of slump.
- Room IV · Column. Fluting, capitals and blocks borrowed from the architecture that holds the art.
Saucers, spoons, milk jugs and stands are made in the same four languages. A Pleat saucer carries the folds of the Pleat cups out to its rim; a Facet spoon has a six-sided handle that will not roll off a saucer. You can build a set one piece at a time and it will still look like it was meant to go together.
Why pairs
Espresso is rarely drunk alone. Every cup is sold as a pair of two identical cups, and the price you see is for the pair.
Numbers we stand behind
Each cup has its capacity printed on its exhibit label, in millilitres, measured to the brim. Our cups hold between 60 and 80 ml, which is right for a single or a double shot with room for the crema. Sizes are given in millimetres. If a number on the site is ever wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
What we do not do
We do not run countdown timers, invent reviews or quote press we have not had. Our product photographs show the designs as they are meant to look; glaze tone and drip lines vary slightly from piece to piece, which is part of the point.