“Cutting-edge names create pieces of couture quality… Meta is perfect.”
Elle Decoration
“Meta is as much about rediscovering heritage materials and preserving disappearing crafts (…) as it is about enabling master craftsmen to “talk” in a contemporary language through the input of great designers.”
— Financial Times
Diamonds 2 by Matali Crasset, Mahogany, Brass, Leather and Hand Silvered Drawn Glass
Diamonds 1 Lighting Collection by Matali Crasset, Paktong and Blown Glass
“Some of design’s biggest names have been given licence to indulge in ‘blue sky thinking’.”
— Times Magazine
Ivo 03 by Asymptote, Steel and Slumped Glass
“The Fig Leaf represents a virtuoso handling of materials and techniques in the service of aesthetic excess, nominally functioning as a wardrobe but actually functioning as a vehicle for Tord Boontje’s design vocabulary, and as an object of desire, contemplation and investment.”
Gareth Williams, Telling Tales, Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2008
Fig Leaf by Tord Boontje, Enamel, Bronze, Silk, Brass, Steel and Leather
“Hani Rashid sees (the Mnemos box collection) as ‘microarchitectures,’
in much
the same way they design
their buildings. Using a virtual modelling
program, the
architects simulated molten gold dripping over a box like
lava
to create what Rashid calls ‘droplets frozen in time.’”
— I.D. Magazine
Mnemos 1 by Asymptote, Solid Gold
Mnemos 2 and Mnemos 3 by Asymptote, Vermeil
“Meta was a gamble. One born of the passion for excellence: a desire to fusion the secrets of the very finest craftsmen with the creative vision of cutting edge designers.”
— Soon Magazine
Armoire by Tord Boontje, Rosewood and Padouk
“‘From a craftsman’s viewpoint it was technically challenging, and from a design perspective it was wonderful, refreshing – a new dynamic look. You could tell immediately Barber Osgerby hadn’t worked with silver – the manufacturing skills required would push all boundaries.”
— Steve Ottewill to Hatta Byng, House and Garden
Cidade by Barber Osgerby, Britannia Silver
“Meta’s products are a true hymn to materials
and
artisanship. Through
cutting-edge design they
manage
to
forge a new dimension in which ancient
and
contemporary
go hand-in-hand.”
— Curve Magazine, 2008
Carina by Klauser and Carpenter, 3m Carrara Marble
