Abacus Atelier at Edit Napoli 2025
Abacus Atelier brought its playful, modular ceramics to Edit Napoli 2025. They joined the fair’s “Seminario” section—a curated platform spotlighting emerging studios and experimental practices. Abacus Atelier’s presence underscores the studio’s rapid rise on Italy’s contemporary design scene. They align with the fair’s mission to champion designer-makers who rethink production and distribution.
The 2025 edition took place on 10–12 October in Naples. Its new central venue was La Santissima, part of the SS. Trinità delle Monache complex overlooking the Quartieri Spagnoli.
Who is Abacus Atelier?
Founded in Milan in 2024 by architects Olga Spagnoletti and Diletta Aprile, Abacus Atelier is a creative studio focused on ceramic objects that invite interaction and personal expression. Their approach stems from the belief that beauty is mutable. Beauty, for Abacus Atelier, evolves through the emotional relationship between the artifact and its author (in this case, you). This philosophy materializes in designs that are never quite the same twice. They’re composed, stacked, and tuned by the user.
“Riviera Nostalgia”: Modular Ceramics You Compose
At the heart of Abacus Atelier’s offering is “Riviera Nostalgia,” a first collection of componibili (stackable, modular) ceramic vases designed and handmade in Italy. Each piece consists of rings that you can recombine, allowing the vase to reflect the identity of whoever assembles it. The concept springs from a childhood gesture and from the studio’s coastal roots—Romagna and Salento—translating seaside memories into tactile, color-rich forms.
The result is a product that resists static typologies: it’s part sculpture, part container, and wholly personal.
Why Edit Napoli is the Right Stage for Abacus Atelier
Edit Napoli was founded expressly to support, promote, and celebrate a new generation of designers and independent producers—those who sit at the intersection of craft and contemporary culture. Its curatorial manifesto highlights the designer-maker as an autonomous force, and it selects studios and enlightened manufacturers who challenge traditional value chains with small-batch, collectible design. Abacus Atelier’s hands-on ceramic vocabulary, emphasis on user co-creation, and short-run production logic fit this ethos, making Edit Napoli a natural amplifier for the studio’s work in 2025.
While Edit Napoli hosts a broad spectrum of exhibitors across categories, Seminario is the place to spot promising new voices before they scale.
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Abacus Atelier’s Highlights: Collectible Design with a Personal Twist
Expect tactile surfaces, generous proportions, and color ways that invite you to compose your own silhouette ring by ring. While interacting with the vase, the profile changes with each layer. As a matter of fact, the vase behaves as both a vessel and an architectural totem within a room.
What distinguishes Abacus Atelier is not just material expertise but participatory authorship. By inviting the collector to finish the form, every piece becomes a limited edition of one. This approach aligned with today’s market for collectible design that values narrative, tactility, and provenance. For interiors, these vases function as focal points on consoles and dining tables; grouped, they create a skyline of stacked forms—playful yet composed. For galleries and design boutiques, they’re a conversation starter: an object you don’t merely place but compose.
Final Thoughts: Abacus Atelier’s Momentum
For a studio founded just a year prior, Abacus Atelier’s inclusion at Edit Napoli signals strong momentum. Its Riviera Nostalgia line speaks to contemporary design’s desire for objects that blend craft and play, form and interaction. If you’re seeking Italian ceramics with a narrative backbone—and the freedom to shape that narrative—Abacus Atelier at Edit Napoli 2025 is a highlight you couldn’t miss.
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