Peddada Silver
Volume 3
Exotic Metal
Manufacture Designed by Raju Peddada and handcrafted by 11th generation Italian Silversmiths in the hills surrounding lake Como. The contemporary objects were painstakingly handwrought, with metalsmithing tools and processes devised in antiquity almost 2000 years ago. It’s an exotic and esoteric combination of contemporary concepts of utility and design, and ancient processes, resulting in what we have here. Look at each object carefully and see how difficult they were to create. Passion is the only ingredient that enables such creations...
Give me the luxuries in life and I can dispense with the necessities
- Oscar Wilde
Peddada Design
At the dawn of the 21st century, designer Raju Peddada’s expressionist vision challenges the orthodoxy of post-modern minimalism with a fantastic and soulful homage to western technology and the idealization of forms -- inspired by an eclectic selection of cultural artifacts and icons that range from the mythic to the mundane. This seminal collection of silver accessories from Peddada, celebrates our human impulse to explore, transform, and renew the world. Where the Japanese Zen aesthetics searches for grace in the accidental and incidental beauty -- Peddada seeks beauty, in the deliberations of the labyrinthine mind. Forms that reflect the seamless sublimation of socio-cultural artifacts and achievements that represent our collective consciousness. Luxurious silver finishes hint at the indelible heritage of the past, carried forth to the present, as everyday celebration of life. Duality and multiple fucntionality meet in a Shivaesque dance of creation, deconstruction, and reinvention that flouts conventional boundaries separating stasis and movement, literal from abstract, profound from commonplace. Reversibility and inversion are recurring themes as, for example, a vase inspired by Galileo’s telescope inverts to become an anthropomorphic serving pedestal. Or the Acrobat, holding up spheres with candles and flowers, then, reversing to a tall stoic vase. Some designs are destined to complement, others to command. Architectural in scale, musical in composition, erotic in their sensuality, Peddada accents possess an intrinsic power to carry us to another sphere, with jazz like interplay of content in context, texture, form and function -- that become a focal point in any environment, from high touch transitional to high tech modern. All designs are passionately hand made in Italy, by 11th generation silversmiths. Design Patents and copyrights by Peddada, 2004. All rights reserved.
Peddada Brand Nature’s highest achievement, is the capacity it gave us, to observe and create, and reflect on creation. Recognizing the universal human creative impulse that gives birth to all social and cultural change. Peddada home accents represent a quantum shift in contemporary furnishings, with design experiences that engage, tantalize, challenge and inspire the observer at an intellectual level.
The unique and paradigmatic aesthetic appeal of Peddada designs derive in large part from their configurability, which leaves the final act of creative expression to the end user. In a very real sense, no piece is finished until it finds its assigned role in the owner’s environment. As Pythagoras, Euclid and Da Vinci sought perfection in the mathematical proportions of commonplace objects and the human figure, Peddada designs explore the spiritual dimensions of technology, from antiquity to the present. Thematic designs are patented, and unique manufacturing processes are used to achieve the limited batch production of objects.
Peddada, as a brand, seeks to express and bring a chimeric melding of function and design, creating a n aesthetic paradigm never experienced before. Peddada product philosophy pursues a singularly satisfying reciprocal engagement with the observer, by inducing the individual to experience the myth, mystery and meaning At a time when technology is popularly denounced for it’s planned obsolescence of the object. of objects, Peddada isolates and celebrates only the passion and playful creativity that lifts the human spirit -- advancing the proposition that beauty lies not in the eye, but in the intellect of the beholder. This is the Peddada brand spirit!
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Lacuna
A binary system held in repose by mutual gravitation becomes a multi-functional fruit bowl, with a complementary serving orb atop for nuts and candy.
Galileo
A vase of astronomical proportions! Named for the man credited with training the first telescope on the vast reaches of space the proverbial vault of the heavens.
Leonardo
Stadium atop a tripod? Whatever it maybe, it definitely says modern, minimal and maddeningly mysterious. It’s mundane function is an oxymoron.
Euclid
Euclidean geometrics, purported to be the model for several systems of rational thought, is the inspiration behind this equilateral triangle armatured vase / bowl and candelabra.
Droid
A retro-modern apparition from the Star-wars era. A vase, capturing the nostalgia, as it teleports us back to the seventies-and, spies the future of aesthetics.
Aurelius
Honoring the stoic emperor-philosopher of Rome an otherworldly relic, inspired by the ancient practice of lashing sticks to form a tripod for a camp bowl.
Wotan
Organic & industrial shapes fuse in this inverted and fierce warrior helmet of the Norse warlord. Playfully malevolent tension -arrests the bowl atop the dagger like legs.
Copernicus
Legendary astronomer’s postulation sets the renaissance in motion. Here, small moons, fixed in their heliocentric orbit, reveal fantastic journeys of the future.
Acheluos Wing-like structures adorn this modern rendition of the mythical horn of plenty, wrested by Hercules, from the eponymous river god what a horn?!
Amfortas
Venus and Mars mingle on this neo-medieval chalice. Carved battlements pierce the feminine curves, allowing reflected and refracted light to spill in dramatic intercourse.
Orca
Whale of an object -- for functional banality? Why are all the creatures different in form, if all their function in life is to procreate?
Minerva
Can an object be ordained by the Goddess of wisdom and patron of arts? This orb disguises its functions like a reticent man -offering flowers and candles to her.
Newton
Three-sided thoughts are not beyond the father of modern science -- but, a three-sided object is esoteric -- even with each side having the same dual function.
Tivoli
It’s a tribute to the master designer and builder of antiquity, Hadrian. A vase and candelabra in one -- a therapeutic combination of beauty, aroma and light.
Peddada Silver
Volume 3
Design Patents and copyrights by Peddada, 2004. All rights reserved.
Exotic Metal