Ethimo has introduced Coppe, a new series of vases designed by Studiopepe, continuing a collaboration between the brand and the Milan-based studio that has previously produced the Bulbi and Innesti collections. Coppe returns to the container as a formal archetype, reducing it to what the brief describes as a pure, minimal synthesis of shape.
The collection comprises two vases in different sizes, both built around the same design premise: a body, base, and inner cavity resolved without visible joins, so the form reads as one continuous, seamless volume. The result is a rounded silhouette with carefully measured proportions, a shape whose simplicity is doing the structural and visual work rather than any applied ornamentation.
Material treatment is central to how the pieces read up close. The concrete surface showcases a visible texture that indicates handwork, with intentional variations, minor imperfections, and slight finish differences embraced as part of the design. The color palette stays within warm, earthy tones, consistent with the material itself rather than applied as a separate decorative layer.
Coppe is designed for outdoor use, intended to sit in gardens, terraces, or verandas, and built to hold up over time both physically and in how it reads visually within a space. The vases can function individually as quiet, recognizable objects or be grouped together to form a more active compositional arrangement with plants or flowers.
This is Studiopepe’s third vase collection for Ethimo. Bulbi, the first in the sequence, comprised six concrete vases in varying shapes and sizes, designed to double as occasional tables when grouped, with the studio describing the collection’s name as a reference to both the container’s shape and to ideas of nourishment and growth. Innesti followed with a system built around complementary silhouettes designed to interlock or sit side by side, allowing constantly shifting arrangements from the same set of pieces. Coppe continues that same throughline of concrete, craftsmanship, and modular arrangement, though its focus narrows to two forms rather than a larger family, treating restraint itself as the collection’s organizing idea.
Studiopepe, founded in Milan in 2006 by Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto, works across architecture, interior design, product design, and creative direction, with a stated focus on research-driven, multidisciplinary design. The studio’s ongoing collaboration with Ethimo consistently emphasizes concrete and the container form, allowing for multiple collections without repeating solutions.
