Mario Luca Giusti turned to Florence’s long tradition of decorative craft this season, building a spring table setting out of synthetic crystal glassware and melamine tableware dressed in the brightest colors of the collection. The pieces borrow the sheen of cut crystal and the warmth of hand-painted ceramic without carrying any of the fragility, a formula the Florentine Maison has built its name on since 2007. The mix this season runs to four pieces, a pair of glasses, two pitchers and a set of plates that read like scagliola inlay.
How Mario Luca Giusti Reworked Crystal and Ceramic for Spring?
Founder Mario Luca Giusti grew up in Florence surrounded by antique dealers and craftsmen, an upbringing that later shaped his instinct for pairing old forms with new materials. The material he settled on is what the Maison calls synthetic crystal, an acrylic that carries the shine of cut crystal without the weight, while the plates borrow the same trick from melamine standing in for hand-fired ceramic. That swap lets the collection move as easily onto a pool deck or a boat as it does onto a dining table, sitting somewhere between baroque ornament and pop color, practical enough for daily use yet dressed up enough to hold its own at a spring lunch.
The Pieces That Made This Spring Table Setting
Fisheye opens the range with a pair of glasses in a candy bright yellow, a taller tumbler paired with a shorter one, each pierced by round clear windows that catch the light like tiny portholes and give the tumblers their name. Pancale carries that same appetite for pattern onto its own melamine tableware, a set of plates in swirled yellow and green grounds bordered by the scrollwork and blooms that recall scagliola, the marbled plasterwork stonemasons once used for inlay on floors and tabletops, the whole design framed by a deep maroon rim that grounds the busy pattern. Sister Rosetta takes the shape of a rounded pitcher in deep green, its surface raised into rows of glossy bubbles and set off by a clear glass handle that leaves the dimpled body to do the talking. Orsetta rounds out the set as a sky blue water pitcher, its full spherical body closed with a rounded glass stopper that catches the light like a small mirror, built to look as good empty on a shelf as it does filled and set on the table.
Together, the four pieces sum up what Mario Luca Giusti has been doing since the Maison’s founding, taking classic tableware shapes and letting color do the work of making them feel new again for spring. The full range is refreshed each year, with new colors added from black through the brightest end of the palette, so the same idea keeps finding new life season after season.
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