100 Series* / Kyoto Towers

If you do it right, it will last forever.

_ Massimo Vignelli

The Casigliani Kyoto dish set is a classic designed by Massimo and Lella Vignelli in 1979. The basic concept behind this stackable set of melamine dinnerware was to simplify the operation of collecting plates at the end of the meal. All you have to do is stack the plates one on top of the other, and that is exactly what I did, at least one hundred times :) _ RZLBD

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100 is an ongoing theme/project at Atelier RZLBD that explores serial works, taxonomy, typology, and iteration as a means to explore possibilities, to search for the best solution, if there is any; while remaining faithful to a set of rules, core beliefs, or a modus operandi if you will. Of course, this has been an old tradition among many artists and architects to investigate the creative potential of defined rules to articulate a body of work with coherence.

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Medium: Kyoto Dinnerware (Terracotta Red)

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© Atelier RZLBD / Reza Aliabadi / 2023, Toronto, Canada