Rho, Fiera Milano
Salone Raritas
Pav. 9, Booth 9bis
21-26 April 2026
9:30 - 18:30
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Officine Saffi Lab presents Process as Form, a live ceramic performance developed in collaboration with Hannes Peer. Hosted within Salone Raritas, the project redefines ceramics as a dynamic and time-based design practice.
Rather than presenting a finished object, Process as Form unfolds as an open process. Over the course of the fair, a team of ceramicists from Officine Saffi Lab will construct a large-scale sculptural wall on site, designed by Hannes Peer. The work will take shape progressively, through a sequence of gestures, adjustments, and decisions that are typically concealed within the studio. By bringing making into the foreground, the project positions process itself as form. Clay is continuously shaped, altered, and recomposed, revealing the intrinsic relationship between technique and outcome, intention and transformation. The performance highlights the tension between control and unpredictability, emphasizing the material’s agency within the act of design. Process as Form frames ceramics as an architectural practice—where making is not merely the execution of a predefined idea, but an active design methodology. The wall emerges over time as the result of an ongoing negotiation between concept and matter, structure and intuition. Visitors are invited to engage with a living work in progress, witnessing the evolution of form as it happens. In doing so, the project challenges conventional distinctions between design, craft, and construction, offering a direct insight into the creative process behind large-scale ceramic production.
Rather than presenting a finished object, Process as Form unfolds as an open process. Over the course of the fair, a team of ceramicists from Officine Saffi Lab will construct a large-scale sculptural wall on site, designed by Hannes Peer. The work will take shape progressively, through a sequence of gestures, adjustments, and decisions that are typically concealed within the studio. By bringing making into the foreground, the project positions process itself as form. Clay is continuously shaped, altered, and recomposed, revealing the intrinsic relationship between technique and outcome, intention and transformation. The performance highlights the tension between control and unpredictability, emphasizing the material’s agency within the act of design. Process as Form frames ceramics as an architectural practice—where making is not merely the execution of a predefined idea, but an active design methodology. The wall emerges over time as the result of an ongoing negotiation between concept and matter, structure and intuition. Visitors are invited to engage with a living work in progress, witnessing the evolution of form as it happens. In doing so, the project challenges conventional distinctions between design, craft, and construction, offering a direct insight into the creative process behind large-scale ceramic production.