Urano - Eros

Eros is the most architecturally precise piece in Giulio Zizzari's Urano collection: a T-form rendered in three materials that reads simultaneously as side table, pedestal, and sculptural object.

The form is a compressed vertical hierarchy. A matte black rectangular top with rounded corners sits on a glossy black cylindrical body, which in turn rests on a teal-green marble base with intricate white veining. Each transition is deliberate: from matte to gloss, from straight edge to curve, from industrial lacquer to raw stone. The three-part composition is the piece's argument.

The marble base carries the Verde Alpi character of the wider Urano collection: teal ground, white veining, geological weight. Against the precision of the matte black above, the stone's natural variation becomes a contrast that gives the piece its tension.

Eros takes its name from asteroid 433 Eros, a near-Earth rock whose name belongs to myth but whose nature is geological. That compression of the soft and the hard, the named and the nameless, is the piece's conceptual core.