Color Archeology | LAUFEN x Roberto Sironi

River Inn, Alcova Miami | December 2 - 7, 2025

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COLOR ARCHEAOLOGY  - THE MIAMI CHAPTER

During Miami Art Week 2025, LAUFEN presents Colour Archaeology – The Miami Chapter at Alcova Miami, continuing the global journey of a project that explores the ancestral origins of ceramic colour through art, archaeology, and design.

Conceived by Italian designer and researcher Roberto Sironi, curated and spatially interpreted by experience designer Annabelle Schneider, and commissioned by LAUFEN, this new iteration unfolds as a meditation on earth, time, and transformation.

At Alcova, Colour Archaeology enters into dialogue with Miami’s luminous sand and sea, translating the city’s landscape into a poetic reflection on material memory. The installation evokes the act of excavation — unearthing pigments, stories, and traces of human creativity that connect the past to the present.

Sironi’s research, commissioned by LAUFEN, represents the brand’s first multidisciplinary study dedicated to colour in ceramics. Conducted over three years, the project analysed more than 10,000 archaeological artefacts from international museums, tracing the chromatic evolution of ceramics across eight ancient civilisations. The resulting palette of twelve hues reinterprets the refined tonalities of the ancient world through a contemporary lens — from Egyptian Cerulean and Babylonian Sand to Celadon Green and Andean Purple, each colour embodying centuries of craftsmanship and cultural identity.

“The twelve shades of Colour Archaeology rise from the depths of the ancient world, carrying with them echoes of history and craftsmanship. They infuse the contemporary home with sophisticated, timeless nuances — a dialogue between past and present. Conceived in dialogue with the LAUFEN collection, this palette unveils new visions and new meanings through the language of colour,” explains Roberto Sironi.

In Miami, these chromatic narratives meet the soft, sandy topography of South Florida. Through a sculptural composition of forms and pigments, the installation reflects on the origins of clay and on LAUFEN’s own kaolin – the mineral at the heart of its ceramic production. It becomes both excavation and meditation: a tactile study of how colour, context, and craftsmanship evolve through centuries of human touch.

Following its presentations at Milan Design Week and HIX London, Colour Archaeology continues to expand across continents. This new chapter reaffirms LAUFEN’s ongoing exploration of design as a form of cultural dialogue — where art, technology, and sustainability converge to shape the bathroom as a living ecosystem and a space of creativity and reflection.

ALCOVA Miami              Room B 202 - Blue House 
                                            Miami River Inn,
                                            37 SW 2ND Miami

Press Preview                Monday,  December 1
                                            from 3 – 4 pm – rsvp only
Opening Cocktail          from 4 – 7pm – rsvp only


On View                           Tuesday - Sunday,
                                            December 2 – 7, from 11am – 7pm

Open House                     Thursday, December 4, 2 – 7:30pm
                                            LAUFEN Space in Miami Ironside,
                                            7636 NE 4th Court, Suite 112
                                            Miami, FL 33138 

PREVIEW RENDERINGS

“I chose sand as the medium to ground Colour Archaeology — a project on colour by LAUFEN and Roberto Sironi — in its truest context for Alcova Miami 2025: the earth that first held the pigments of ancient ceramics, and a material that echoes kaolin, the mineral foundation of vitreous china. In dialogue with Miami’s luminous landscape, the installation transforms Sironi’s research into a tactile, temporary study of layers, digging deeper, time, origin, and presence.

Thank you to LAUFEN, Roberto Sironi, and Alcova for an inspiring week, for the depth in conversations, and for the shared vision of creating tactile experiences that meaningfully shape the spaces we inhabit”.

Date: December 2-7, 2025 
Event: ALCOVA Miami 2025 
Location: Miami River Inn, 437 SW 2ND Miami
Room: B202 (Blue House)
Category: Installation for Research and Products of LAUFEN x Roberto Sironi
Press: Whitewall.art, HOME, Eletrolarnews, Designscene, Archiscene, Revistause, Glocal, Alcova Miami 2025