Client / Camini. Domestic presence in the post-technical era. Curated by Paolo Casicci
Year / 2026
There was a time when warmth was not only a matter of temperature, but of proximity.
In Sicilian homes, before central heating, it was the conca—a small domestic brazier—that gathered people together, becoming the quiet center of family life.
This project revisits that archetype and transforms it.
Made of stainless steel by Paolo Tabbone, an artisan based in Palermo, it emerges from the meeting between material memory and contemporary use.
The triangular form defines both the name and the object: a primary and stable geometry that recalls the idea of the hearth as a point of convergence.
The triangle is an elemental figure, but also a symbolic one: three sides as three presences, three gestures, three fires— a minimal balance that makes togetherness possible. In many traditions, it represents protection and transformation, connected to fire as an active element.
Like the conca, Tri Fuochi is conceived to be shared. Here, however, warmth extends to the act of cooking: the surface becomes a grill, and fire returns as an occasion for gathering.
No longer just an object that produces heat, but a relational device.
A center around which a new form of conviviality takes shape.
Credits and technical information
Concept and Design / Martinelli Venezia
Production / Paolo Tabbone, via Calderai, Palermo
Materials / polished stainless steel
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