Black stoneware, basalt foraged in Stromboli
Fired at 1250°C
Stamped with material details and UA/Clara Holt logo on the base
10x10 cm

The Stromboli volcano portrait on this tile is made with pulverised lava from the island of Stromboli in Italy. Stromboli has been active for the past 2,000–5,000 years. The summit craters, surrounded by the sea, erupt with small energetic bursts, containing ash, incandescent lava fragments and stone blocks.

The body of the tile is made of black commercial stoneware, onto which lava is applied to the surface and melted in the kiln at high temperatures, in a process similar to the geological one that formed them in the Earth’s crust. The liquid appearance of the decoration is an immediate reminder of the fire and heat that made both the lava rocks and the tile.

About the collection

The Clara Holt/Unurgent Argilla collaboration is a growing collection of objects decorated with scenes and wild materials foraged on the volcanoes of Pantelleria, Stromboli and Etna. Each decoration is specific to the setting where the materials were collected.