Room 10
Amphora
In the right hand cabinet you can see 20th century Viennese vases by Amphora, with spiders, fish and ethereal female figures playing across their surfaces – Jugendstil on display in ceramic form.
In the cabinet on the left, most of the vases are by Pilkington’s Lancastrian, an English manufacturer that employed designers such as Walter Crane. The brass cup is by Josef Hoffmann, the small head on the left is Ife and on the other side, the balm box is Zulu.
The room is completed with a work by Warren Knight, Twig by Gilbert & George (1980) and a view of Hamburg by Elisabeth Scherffig. Next to the entrance, another work by Bernd and Hilla Becher and a photo by Andrea Cometta.
On your way to the Torrino, opposite the lift, the mirror is by Anne and Patrick Poirier, designed specifically for Palazzo Butera, and is inspired by Mnemosyne by Warburg, who created a memory map, where ideas and figures pass through time.