"The earth, with its waters, forests, and mountains, is extraordinarily beautiful in itself, in its simple and bare presence. Different from everyday artifacts, in which use and function are predominant, the earth is what it is, independently from what we are, what we do, and what use we give to it.

Conceiving the Terra kitchen, I imagined an object that, while useful and functional, presents itself with the same strength as nature: solid, timeless, and abstract. I expressed the immense value of the earth with a rigorous geometrical shape and natural materials. Cooking on a porphyry worktop, which is twenty-eight million years old, makes me feel reverent and fortunate at the same time." - Claudio Silvestrin