About two years ago, Planium's design department began experimenting with induced natural oxidation processes starting from metals such as Copper and Brass. The Brand has always worked with metals for floors and walls and in the past it has achieved particular chromatic and aesthetic stages dictated by oxidation (in that case of Steel). We would be surprised to know how many chromatic and imaginative qualities hide these materials used by Planium for experimental artistic oxidation projects. In fact, the company presented a collection of Tapestries at Design Week 2022, deriving almost entirely from the oxidation of Copper and Brass.
The slabs of the MAVI and MAVI CALYPSO collections obtained are heterogeneous and testify to the most disparate contexts. Sometimes, if the prevailing color is the copper itself, supported however by the shades of yellow, ocher, rye yellow or zinc or ivory, the pictorial picture will be close to hay as well as to the bucolic contexts a little pleasant of Virgilian literature, or again to the autumnal trunks that turn yellow at the top. These two series based on the same principle differ in size (Mavi: 1h x 2L in meters; Mavi Calypso: 48L x 197h cm) and all belong to the project, symbolically and creatively renamed Metal-morphosis, both having a decorative wall function: the Mavi Calypso then, being tapestries, they are also adaptable as dividers!
MAVI Calypso 06 Even when other colors dominate in the oxidizing Copper, depending on the slab, we can refer to trees that with their chiseled barks seem to stand out from the backgrounds as in the paintings, and the protagonists are the colors ranging from the blue of the maritime shades and therefore tending to Cerulean up to Steel Blue and Denim.
What about Brass instead? The shades of yellow are predominant: ocher, honey, straw yellow, curry, beige. Some bluish traits that derive from the oxidation of the copper contained in the brass. Going towards green, we find colors that are close to olive, lime. Even the Veronese green, the cinnabar, the hunter green or the pine green were the protagonists of the slabs with somewhat "forest" themes due to the strong presence of these colors.
