Deep Cuts
Dec 13, 2018
1 minute
WORDS _Mark Teo
PHOTOGRAPHS _Giulia Piermartiri
from Design Academy Eindhoven less than three years ago, Italian-born designer Guglielmo Poletti has been meticulously refining a minimal yet idiosyncratic aesthetic. He has added three pieces to his’s radar (see November/December 2017) – and in the past year he has exhibited in Milan, Paris and London. Poletti captured our attention again at Cersaie, the massive tile expo held every September in Bologna, Italy. His Segments tile collection generated significant buzz and earned an ADI Ceramics & Bathroom Design Award for innovation at the show. Initially, Poletti admits, he wasn’t enamoured with porcelain surfacing. “It’s a field,” he says, “where everything has been tried.”
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