Alternative Artefacts Danto

Alternative Artefacts Danto is the latest creative venture launched by Danto, one of Japan’s most historic ceramic manufacturers, which has been based on the island of Awajishima, in the Seto Inland Sea, since 1885.

The brand is rewriting the rules of interior design by creating painstakingly developed surfaces that combine tradition with trailblazing innovation. A.a. Danto’s latest releases include a tile collection produced with the designer India Mahdavi, which marks the brand’s first international collaboration.

The series uses the medium of ceramic to express a new-found sense of colour, by reprising the signature textures of Danto’s experimental back-catalogue and channelling them into contemporary designs, sometimes in three-dimensional compositions that physically stand out in space as objects in their own right.