Client / Poste Italiane for “Il risparmio postale dal salvadanaio al francobollo”, a project conceived and curated by Giulio Iacchetti
Year / 2026
Peso d’oro is a money box that makes time visible.
The project was developed on the occasion of the exhibition Il risparmio postale. Dal salvadanaio al francobollo, curated by Giulio Iacchetti for Poste Italiane, dedicated to the cultural, ethical, and design value of saving.
Made from a sheet of brass that is cut, bent, and hand-welded, the object takes shape in a workshop on Via Calderai in Palermo through a process rooted in precision and continuity.
Its essential form encloses a simple and universal gesture: accumulation. Each coin inserted increases the object’s actual weight, turning saving into a physical, measurable presence. Value is not only contained, but revealed through the time required to fill it, in the slowness of a repeated gesture.
In this way, Peso d’oro translates saving into a tangible experience: not an abstraction, but a process that unfolds over time, coin after coin, day after day. The object becomes a concrete measure of duration, where matter and time coincide.
Credits and technical information
Concept and Design / Martinelli Venezia
Project Assistant / Giuseppe Fiducia
Materials / polished brass
Production / Paolo Tabbone, via Calderai, Palermo
Photo / Gaia Anselmi Tamburini