The Ohtake collection, timeless in its sleek aesthetic, contemporary in its originality, consists of 3 over countertop washbasins in four different finishes.
This creative collaboration has been one of the highlights of what has been a productive friendship between Ruy Ohtake and Roca - a partnership that would go on to include other design projects, ideas, talks, seminars, exhibits, masterclasses, awards and an enduring mutually inspiring creative exchange.
The curves and the organic character of Ruy's Ohtake work made him an ideal guest collaborator for the Roca Group. Furthermore, Ruy’s active participation and attention to the execution of his designs, no matter what scale, perfectly aligned him with Roca’s commitment to craftmanship excellence.
In developing his design for Ohtake Collection, the architect looked beyond Nature’s liquid curves, to find inspiration on another unexpected natural item: the egg. “The egg is something of an exceptional quality, with its high rigidity even with such a thin skin!”, he would comment. Seeing a correlation between the lightness of the egg skin and Roca’s Fineceramic® material, he applied that cutting edge technology to achieve the ultra-thin borders he had envisioned for his sculptural designs for the collection.
The resulting pieces feature Ruy’s signature sensual shapes, with undulating edges and outlines, resembling more a walk in the beach than simply a basin container. As he would say: “A good piece of Architecture, of design, must have an element of unpredictability, of emotion”.
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