{ "categories": { "the-canvas": { "name": "The Canvas", "subtitle": "Original Paintings", "num": "001", "desc": "Objects born of silence and pigment — each canvas a meditation on light, memory, and the Mediterranean gaze.", "enquiryOnly": true, "hero": "images/hero-canvas.png" }, "the-archive": { "name": "The Archive", "subtitle": "Antiques & Artefacts", "num": "002", "desc": "Pieces that have lived other lives. Rescued, restored, and returned to relevance.", "enquiryOnly": true, "hero": "images/hero-archive.png" }, "the-collection": { "name": "The Collection", "subtitle": "Designer Works", "num": "003", "desc": "Collaborations and commissions with the world's most considered makers.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-collection.png" }, "the-workshop": { "name": "The Workshop", "subtitle": "Furniture", "num": "004", "desc": "Forms that define space. Furniture as architecture — scaled for living.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-workshop.png" }, "the-light": { "name": "The Light", "subtitle": "Lighting", "num": "005", "desc": "To design light is to design atmosphere. Each piece governs how a room breathes at night.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-light.png" }, "the-cabinet": { "name": "The Cabinet", "subtitle": "Small Curated Pieces", "num": "006", "desc": "The accumulation of beauty in miniature. Objects for the contemplative desk or shelf.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-cabinet.png" }, "the-kiln": { "name": "The Kiln", "subtitle": "Pottery & Ceramics", "num": "007", "desc": "Earth shaped by hand and fire. Vessels that carry the intelligence of their making.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-kiln.png" }, "the-loom": { "name": "The Loom", "subtitle": "Linens & Textiles", "num": "008", "desc": "Cloth as architecture. Weight, weave and warmth — the quiet luxury of the considered home.", "enquiryOnly": false, "hero": "images/hero-loom.png" } }, "products": [ { "id": "canvas-01", "category": "the-canvas", "type": "Oil on Canvas", "title": "Mediterranean Still", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "A study in light and stillness — ochre, limestone and the quiet hour before dusk. The surface carries the weight of accumulated afternoons, each brushstroke a record of watching.", "story": "Painted over three weeks in the Lija studio during the long days of August. The composition emerged from a view of sun-bleached limestone interrupted by a single shadow — a study in what remains when the excess is removed.", "details": { "Dimensions": "90 × 120 cm", "Medium": "Oil on linen canvas", "Year": "2024", "Framing": "Unframed — bespoke framing available" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "canvas-02", "category": "the-canvas", "type": "Watercolour", "title": "Olive & Ochre", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "The palette of the Maltese countryside distilled into pure abstraction. Fields of wild fennel, dry stone walls, and the particular olive-silver of morning.", "story": "A departure into pure colour field — no horizon, no object, only the memory of a landscape absorbed over decades of looking.", "details": { "Dimensions": "60 × 80 cm", "Medium": "Watercolour on 640gsm cotton rag", "Year": "2023", "Framing": "Unframed" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "canvas-03", "category": "the-canvas", "type": "Mixed Media", "title": "Nocturne I", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "Darkness as material — carbon, wax and the memory of fire. A meditation on what the eye invents when light is withdrawn.", "story": "First in a series exploring the architecture of darkness. The surface was built in seventeen layers — each burned, scraped and sealed before the next was applied.", "details": { "Dimensions": "100 × 70 cm", "Medium": "Carbon, encaustic wax, graphite on board", "Year": "2024", "Framing": "Shadow-box framed in smoked oak" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "archive-01", "category": "the-archive", "type": "19th Century", "title": "The Architect's Stone", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "Carved globigerina limestone — an abstract exploration of weight and negative space. Found in a Valletta palazzo, attributed to an unknown stonemason of the 1880s.", "story": "Acquired from the estate of a Valletta architect. The carving bears no signature but demonstrates an unusual formal sophistication — a deliberate voidness that feels entirely contemporary.", "details": { "Dimensions": "28 × 14 × 10 cm", "Material": "Globigerina limestone", "Period": "c. 1880s, Malta", "Condition": "Very good — minor surface patina" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "archive-02", "category": "the-archive", "type": "Silverware", "title": "Forma Arcaica", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "Hand-cast silver vessels referencing prehistoric Maltese temple forms. A set of three — each a different stage of the same abstracted gesture.", "story": "The forms echo the apses of the Ggantija temples — organic, feminine, purposeful. These are not decorative objects but vessels for holding silence.", "details": { "Dimensions": "Largest: 22 cm H × 14 cm W", "Material": "Hallmarked sterling silver", "Period": "c. 1960s, Maltese workshop", "Condition": "Excellent — professionally polished" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "workshop-01", "category": "the-workshop", "type": "Side Chair", "title": "Sgabello", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A meditation on the Renaissance stool — brass, oak and hand-stitched leather. Produced in a small Florentine workshop to Carlo's specification.", "story": "The Sgabello began as a sketch in a Florentine library — a response to Renaissance furniture's refusal to choose between utility and ceremony.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 82 × W 44 × D 42 cm", "Materials": "Solid white oak, polished brass, vegetable-tanned leather", "Origin": "Florence, Italy", "Lead time": "8–10 weeks" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "workshop-02", "category": "the-workshop", "type": "Dining Table", "title": "Tavola Lunga", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Solid walnut with a patinated bronze base. Seats eight in considered comfort. Available in two lengths.", "story": "Designed for the particular pleasure of a long table — the way conversation travels its length, and how light catches the grain at the far end.", "details": { "Dimensions": "280 × 95 × 75 cm (also 240 cm)", "Materials": "Solid oiled walnut, patinated bronze", "Origin": "Northern Italy", "Lead time": "12–14 weeks" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "workshop-03", "category": "the-workshop", "type": "Cabinet", "title": "Armadio", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Smoked oak cabinet with hand-forged iron pulls. Storage as sculpture — the interior lined in unbleached linen.", "story": "The iron pulls were forged by a blacksmith in the Pyrenean foothills who learned the craft from his grandfather. Each is unique.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 180 × W 90 × D 45 cm", "Materials": "Smoked oak, hand-forged iron, linen lining", "Origin": "Catalonia, Spain", "Lead time": "10–12 weeks" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "kiln-01", "category": "the-kiln", "type": "Stoneware Vessel", "title": "Anfora I", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Hand-thrown in terracotta with a raw ash glaze — referencing the Maltese xemxija in its proportions and the particular weight of a vessel made to hold water.", "story": "Made in collaboration with a Roman ceramicist who works only with Sicilian earth. The glaze is derived entirely from the ash of olive wood burned in the same kiln.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 38 cm × Ø 22 cm", "Material": "Terracotta, natural ash glaze", "Origin": "Rome, Italy", "Edition": "Limited — 6 pieces" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "kiln-02", "category": "the-kiln", "type": "Porcelain", "title": "Pietra del Mare", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Thin-walled porcelain in celadon — the colour of still water on a calm morning. Each piece thrown to translucency.", "story": "The celadon glaze recipe was brought from Korea to Tuscany three generations ago by the maker's grandfather. It has been refined ever since.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 24 cm × Ø 16 cm", "Material": "Bone porcelain, celadon glaze", "Origin": "Tuscany, Italy", "Edition": "Open edition" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "kiln-03", "category": "the-kiln", "type": "Hand-thrown", "title": "Ciotola", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A wide, low bowl finished with iron oxide slip and fired in a wood kiln. Functional but quietly monumental in its proportions.", "story": "The form is ancient — a bowl to hold fruit, bread, ceremony. The maker fires his kiln twice a year with wood cut from his own land.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 10 cm × Ø 34 cm", "Material": "Stoneware, iron oxide slip", "Origin": "Umbria, Italy", "Edition": "Limited — 4 pieces" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "archive-03", "category": "the-archive", "type": "Decorative Antique", "title": "Valletta Nocturne", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "A rare engraving capturing the capital's baroque silhouette at moonrise. Unsigned, consistent in style with the Maltese topographical school of the 1830s.", "story": "Discovered at a London print fair. The nocturnal subject is unusual for the genre — most topographical views of Valletta celebrate high noon. This one belongs to the night.", "details": { "Dimensions": "48 × 32 cm (image)", "Medium": "Engraving on laid paper", "Period": "c. 1835, Malta", "Framing": "Period gilt frame" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "collection-01", "category": "the-collection", "type": "Limited Edition Object", "title": "Pietra Nera Vessel", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A collaboration with a Sicilian stone carver — black basalt turned on a lathe and hand-finished. One of twelve.", "story": "The basalt comes from the slopes of Etna. Each piece takes three days to turn and another day to hand-polish to its final depth.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 28 cm × Ø 18 cm", "Material": "Sicilian basalt", "Edition": "12 pieces", "Origin": "Sicily, Italy" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "collection-02", "category": "the-collection", "type": "Designer Object", "title": "Bronze Mirror No. 3", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A hand-cast bronze mirror with a patinated frame — designed in collaboration with a Parisian foundry. Wall-mounted or freestanding.", "story": "The frame was cast using a lost-wax process that has not changed since the Renaissance. No two are identical — the patina develops differently on each piece.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 60 cm × W 40 cm", "Material": "Patinated bronze, silvered glass", "Origin": "Paris, France", "Lead time": "6–8 weeks" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "collection-03", "category": "the-collection", "type": "Collaboration", "title": "The Limestone Shelf", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Cut from a single block of Maltese globigerina — a shelf that is also a meditation on the island's material identity.", "story": "Quarried from the same formation used to build the co-cathedrals of Malta. The stone is warm in winter and cool in summer — it remembers the climate it came from.", "details": { "Dimensions": "W 90 × D 22 × H 4 cm", "Material": "Globigerina limestone", "Fixing": "Concealed steel bracket", "Origin": "Malta" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "light-01", "category": "the-light", "type": "Table Lamp", "title": "Luce di Sera", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A table lamp in hand-thrown terracotta with a linen shade. The base carries an uneven glaze — each lamp catches dusk differently.", "story": "Made in a small ceramics studio outside Florence. The linen shade is woven in the same village — lamp and shade have never been apart.", "details": { "Dimensions": "H 52 cm, shade Ø 30 cm", "Materials": "Terracotta base, linen shade", "Bulb": "E27, max 40W warm", "Origin": "Tuscany, Italy" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "light-02", "category": "the-light", "type": "Pendant", "title": "Sfera Pendant", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A spun brass sphere with a single aperture — the light it casts is a perfect circle on the ceiling above. Quiet and precise.", "story": "The form came from a study of 17th-century armillary spheres. The aperture is exactly calculated so the light pool matches the diameter of a standard dining table.", "details": { "Dimensions": "Ø 28 cm, cable 2m", "Material": "Spun brass, natural patina", "Bulb": "E27, max 60W warm", "Origin": "Umbria, Italy" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "light-03", "category": "the-light", "type": "Wall Light", "title": "Fiamma Sconce", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A hand-forged iron wall sconce with a matte beeswax finish. The arm extends at a fixed 30-degree angle — no adjustment, no compromise.", "story": "Forged by a blacksmith in the Abruzzo hills. The beeswax finish is applied warm and buffed by hand — it ages like old leather.", "details": { "Dimensions": "Arm 24 cm, H 18 cm", "Material": "Hand-forged iron, beeswax", "Bulb": "E14, max 25W warm", "Origin": "Abruzzo, Italy" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "cabinet-01", "category": "the-cabinet", "type": "Object de Vertu", "title": "Obsidian Paperweight", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "A piece of volcanic obsidian from Lipari, shaped by hand into a smooth asymmetric form. Heavy, cold, and quietly alive on the desk.", "story": "The stone was collected from the beach at Lipari where it had been smoothed by centuries of sea. The shaping took three weeks — removing only what was not already the form.", "details": { "Dimensions": "Approx. 12 × 8 × 5 cm", "Material": "Volcanic obsidian", "Origin": "Lipari, Sicily", "Weight": "Approx. 480g" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "cabinet-02", "category": "the-cabinet", "type": "Collectible", "title": "Brass Letter Opener", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "Cast in solid brass with a handle worn to the exact width of the hand. The blade is dull — it opens letters, not arguments.", "story": "Modelled on a 19th-century Maltese archival tool found in the National Library. The proportions are unchanged — only the material refined.", "details": { "Dimensions": "L 22 cm", "Material": "Solid brass", "Origin": "Malta", "Finish": "Unlacquered — patinas with use" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "cabinet-03", "category": "the-cabinet", "type": "Decorative Piece", "title": "Coral Fragment, Framed", "price": 0, "badge": "ook", "desc": "A naturally bleached Mediterranean coral fragment set in a deep walnut shadow box. A piece of the sea, stilled.", "story": "Found washed ashore on the northern coast of Gozo. The coral is protected — this piece was collected before current restrictions and comes with documentation.", "details": { "Frame": "W 24 × H 30 cm", "Material": "Bleached coral, walnut frame", "Origin": "Gozo, Malta", "Note": "Collected pre-restriction, documented" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "loom-01", "category": "the-loom", "type": "Linen", "title": "Table Cloth — Stone", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A heavy stonewashed linen tablecloth in undyed natural. It creases beautifully and softens with every wash.", "story": "Woven on traditional Flemish looms from Belgian linen grown without irrigation. The stone wash takes three days — the cloth emerges with the texture of something already loved.", "details": { "Dimensions": "260 × 160 cm", "Material": "100% Belgian linen, stonewashed", "Origin": "Flanders, Belgium", "Care": "Machine wash 40°, iron damp" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "loom-02", "category": "the-loom", "type": "Woven Textile", "title": "Merino Throw — Dusk", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A double-weight merino throw in a deep tobacco tone — the colour of the hour before dark in late October.", "story": "Woven in the Basque country from wool sourced within 40km of the loom. The dye is derived from walnut husks — it shifts slightly in different lights.", "details": { "Dimensions": "180 × 130 cm", "Material": "100% merino wool", "Origin": "Basque Country, Spain", "Care": "Hand wash cold, dry flat" }, "images": [] }, { "id": "loom-03", "category": "the-loom", "type": "Silk", "title": "Cushion Cover — Fango", "price": 0, "badge": "", "desc": "A raw silk cushion cover in a warm clay tone. The weave is loose enough to let light through — it glows in afternoon sun.", "story": "Woven in Como from Italian silk. The colour — fango, meaning mud — was developed over six months of sampling to achieve the precise warmth of Mediterranean earth.", "details": { "Dimensions": "50 × 50 cm", "Material": "Raw silk", "Origin": "Como, Italy", "Insert": "Feather insert available separately" }, "images": [] } ] }