Denis Santachiara

Post-consumer materials are no longer just for the "DIYer". Now it is possible to design genuine design objects, new shapes with poetic and witty qualities.

Until some years ago, I would not have designed with scrap or reclaimed materials; it seemed to me too much like "DIY".
In recent years though, technology, industrial quality and aesthetics have progressed significantly, reaching the stage where it is possible to develop new shapes with poetic and witty qualities, trying to get to the heart of their linguistic, even more than their ecological, properties.

Regenesi stands for surprising itself and others that a reclaimed, sometimes coarse, material can become a design object, up-to-the-minute, glamorous, luxurious and competitive with original unrecycled materials.
Certainly, eating something off reclaimed material does present a psychological challenge but the achievements in post-consumer technology can help us overcome this apparent problem: the materials I have used are non-toxic and can be handled in the same way as original unrecycled materials. When we consider that a glass must contain lead to possess the brilliance of crystal, then reclaimed glass must be preferable!