Fornice Objects

Fornice Objects is the studio of Chiara Ravaioli in Ravenna, Italy. She graduated from the University of the Arts in 2016 and started her own brand in 2018, exploring the link between research into innovative and sustainable materials and the use of modelling software applied to analogue printing techniques.

Every piece is a 3D-printed ceramic: stoneware or porcelain is kneaded by hand, extruded through the nozzle of the printer and then fired, glazed and fired again at 1,280 degrees. The range runs from the India vase, made of 30 per cent Sicilian tomato-peel waste and 70 per cent PLA, to the TPU Skipper Bag, and the studio has built installations for Acqua di Parma and Loro Piana during Milan Design Week. In the Italian dictionary of architecture, fornice is the light that passes through the arched openings of ancient buildings.