DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP

Joelle Cifelli – Per Fumum

by Joelle Cifelli

Per Fumum is a project rooted in historical, anthropological and typological research into the objects through which scent is contained and diffused. By observing recurring forms and uses, it explores the relationship between fragrance, domestic space and ritual. This research gives rise to an editorial project, Taxonomy of Scented Forms, and to the design of an oil lamp that brings both light and fragrance. Ceramic pods hold the liquid perfume, diffused by the heat of the flame, reinterpreting historical archetypes in a contemporary language. Made of glass and ceramic, Per Fumum echoes the materials of antiquity, re-establishing a material continuity with the past while proposing a renewed sensory experience: to inhabit the object of light and scent.