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I know what's new on my wish list! Only each and every single piece of this beautiful story telling collection by Manoteca. "Every object has a story to tell and part of that story always involves someone." This is the conceptual foundation for the collection of objects from Manoteca by Elisa Cavani. Capturing old, discarded objects and turning them into something new to be appreciated, Manoteca hopes that the object’s new owner will think about the life the object once lived and the stories it invariably told. Often paired with recycled materials, the designers reinvent old objects into one-off designs that are completely handmade and only painted when necessary. Hailing from Bologna, Italy, Manoteca re-creates objects in a little house located in a park. The end result provides a consistent theme that emulates the age when the objects’ story began.

"I collect objects, take them home and then I wonder what they would like to be. The Manoteca project originates from my personal need to retrain the mind to be flexible by eliminating the prejudice and setting the imagination free”. That is how a door becomes a table that you can use inside and outside and a light bulb becomes a drop of water for the photosynthesis of a tree that produces the light. The game is for me one of the best existing creative processes. As adults we possess more information and can build more complex associations but when we decide to grow up, we tend to stop considering alternative solutions, the space narrows, the colors fade away, and we suffocate. I wanted to avoid drying out as it often happens to the plants in my apartment. Manoteca is just my point of view, is how I would like things to be if it were me to create them." Elisa Cavani