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title: The Surreal Table - Santa Margherita wines
description: Santa Margherita, the main brand of the homonymous Wine Group, keeps on standing in the role of a noble patron in favour of contemporary creative genius. “The Surreal Table” is a project which takes the contemporary dining table as a territory ripe for exploration, an experimental yet everyday world...
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18 • 04 • 2018

# The Surreal Table

**Santa Margherita**, the main brand of the homonymous Wine Group, keeps on standing in the role of a noble patron in favour of contemporary creative genius.

**“The Surreal Table”** is a project which takes the contemporary dining table as a territory ripe for exploration, an experimental yet everyday world of sensorial experience. A place poised between reality and symbolism, able to conjure up and communicate extremely meaningful values and messages.

Just as within the surrealist movement where there could be a ‘shift in gaze’ to reveal new sides of a difficult to explain reality, Santa Margherita invited five designers to explore objects found on a dining table. Five new artworks paired with five different wines were created, a series of prototypes which play with our senses and express themselves through acts of conviviality and the rituals surrounding them. With “Rhyton Collection” **Analogia Project** imagines zoomorphic goblets as the protagonists of a new contemporary ritual, while **Flatwig Sudio** with “Anphora e tappi” (Amphoras and stops) reworks the millenia-old wine container into a transparent form. The artists from **Eligo** put an Italian stamp on their redesigned “La Tulipaniera” (Tulip Vase) for ceremonies and parties, while “Summer on a Solitary Beach” by **Studio Lido** is a swimming pool and diving board to accompany aperitifs; **Zaven** with “Pipe Dream”, artistically dismantles and reassembles functional modules for the table.

The project **"The Surreal Table"**, curated by Fabio Davide Colaci, culminates in a dedicated exhibition inside the headquarters of Santa Margherita Wine Group in Milan Via Durini 24, open to the public from 17 April to 18 May 2018.