Hybrid Cloe fruit bowl by CTRLZAK

Hybrid is a porcelain collection where each piece is sliced in two: on one side a traditional Western pattern, on the other a motif from Eastern ceramics, with the seam running through the middle of the object. CTRLZAK, which designs it for Seletti, sums up the intention in a phrase repeated on all the manufacturer's product sheets: "when East and West meet," designs born from a complex past that evolve into contemporary forms. In practical terms, these are two repertoires of blue and white that meet on a single surface.

Each piece has its own name and never forms a matching set: that is the principle of the collection, you compose it à la carte. The first wave borrows its names from Italo Calvino's invisible cities—Valdrada, Isaura, Zenobia, Fedora—while the second, named Hybrid 2.0, takes them from archaeological sites around the world: Mitla, Lothal, Djenné, Nazca. The manufacturer issues them in one single collection, and the two waves mingle on the same table.

The standard material for the collection is bone china, a fine, translucent porcelain. A few pieces are exceptions, and the "Materials" line on each product sheet notes this: the glasses are made of glass, the placemats of cork or textile, the cushions of polyester. The collection indeed extends beyond the table, even including three hand-painted porcelain ceiling lights.

Cloe is the smallest size in the collection: a bowl 10.5 cm in diameter and 5.7 cm high, for nuts, olives, or a ring placed down at night.