Benedetta Pompili – Ceramic & Social Designer in Amsterdam
Benedetta PompiliDesign research & ceramics
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CV & studio detailsBenedetta Pompili is a social and industrial designer interested in the cultural and political meanings behind craftsmanship. By composing each clay body or glaze from scratch, each project aims at delineating ways of coping with tradition and its ecosystem. 
      Urban and industrial remnants costantly recur in the work. Their incorporation becomes a tool to investigate on their ambiguous status and circulation.
       At the core of her practice lies an interest in daily repeated gestures and in process as a form of knowledge. This extends beyond objects into the design of shared workspaces. They are intendend as environments that support exchange and collaboration
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 LE SEREDesign Signals: Chemical Bonds
Cureted by Martina Muzi
2025 - ongoing
LE SERE, Saturn, copyright of Benedetta Pompili, 2025.
LE SERE, detail from Saturn, copyright of Benedetta Pompili, 2025.
‘Le Sere’ is a series of benches and side tables made from industrial byproducts gathered across Romania. Stained, broken, or uneven offcuts of marble, limestone, andmandesite from Baia Mare are joined by steel rivets and topped with handmade ceramic tiles. The tiles are glazed using dust collected from the Cuprumin copper mine in Abrud and from wire production at Bergbanat in Timișoara.
    Glaze—historically both a surface treatment and a form of containment—becomes a method of material disclosure. In the kiln, chemical residues react with heat to reveal the hidden compositions of the sites they came from. The iron can easily mute the copper. Growing amounts of zinc can show through a perfect gloss, or dramatic crystals and crawlings. Each tile becomes a kind of map—one that records the tensions between standardisation, opacity and contamination in the chemical industry.
    ‘Le Sere’—meaning ‘the evenings’ in Italian—offers a gesture of care toward materials at their end cycle. Through design, industrial residue is amplified rather than concealed, making visible the complex and essential interdependencies that define the chemical sector.
LE SERE, N3 or Mars, copyright of Benedetta Pompili, 2025.
LE SERE, details of Nuvola, copyright of Benedetta Pompili, 2025. 


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