The SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection—housed at the Artwood Academy in Brianza—is a privileged observatory on international design: a living archive that brings together over 300 projects born as prototypes and transformed into products, bearing witness to the transition from intuition to production and welcoming, over time, designers who are now globally established. It is precisely within this context that Domenico Orefice’s journey unfolds. In 2018, at SaloneSatellite, the Milanese designer presented an initial exploration of terracotta developed with Fornace Curti: a project that reinterprets the archetypes of Lombard tradition in a contemporary key and became the starting point for CottoMilano.
From that insight came the collaboration with Ceramiche Keope, which recognized its expressive power and transformed it into an advanced ceramic system, capable of translating the most authentic and sensory qualities of the material into porcelain stoneware. CottoMilano thus emerges as the continuation of this story: not merely an inspiration, but a true contemporary reinterpretation of Lombard terracotta. A material that for centuries has shaped Milan’s architectural identity and that today is reborn in velvety, matte, and low-reflective surfaces, designed to engage with contemporary design.
