Hybrid Eusapia dinner plate by CTRLZAK

Hybrid is a porcelain collection where each piece is cut in two: on one side, a traditional Western design, and on the other, a motif from Eastern ceramics, with the seam running through the middle of the object. CTRLZAK, who designed it for Seletti, summarizes 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 concrete terms, these are two blue and white repertoires meeting on the same 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 takes 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 releases 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 and translucent porcelain. A few pieces are exceptions, as the "Materials" line on each product sheet indicates: the glasses are made of glass, the placemats of cork or textile, and the cushions of polyester. The collection indeed extends beyond the table, even including three hand-painted porcelain ceiling lamps.