About
OBJECTS THAT PRESERVE PLACES, STORIES AND TIME THE MANIFESTO
Waiting for the Bus is a journey across Italy to rediscover its most authentic craftsmanship, from North to South. It is an exploration of materials, techniques, and heritage where Made in Italy still embodies tradition, passion, and manual skill. Hands that transform matter into objects rich with meaning, born from stories passed down through time.
The WFTB catalogue is a contemporary journal. A way to traverse places, meet artisans, and translate this heritage into essential and modern design projects. Each collection is born from the intersection of traditional technique and contemporary vision. Every object carries with it a place, a memory, a fragment of culture.
WFTB was born as a response to mass production, with the desire to preserve artisanal processes, local identities, and design quality.
The journey, which began in Sicily with the Caltagirone collection, continues through Vietri, Gubbio, Venice, Lissone, Milan, and Andria. It is a path that reinterprets local souvenirs with a contemporary touch. The challenge is to make something with a thousand-year history feel current, without losing its memory.
Know-how becomes a bridge between past and present. Tradition is transformed into design. Design becomes a language without time or borders.
WHAT DEFINES WFTB
Made in Italy, authentically handmade Limited productions and bespoke pieces Traditional craftsmanship reinterpreted through design Objects tied to places, stories, and time
Every project is born from a place, from a moment. Then, it becomes an object.
LA STORIA
Jodhpur, 2013
Waiting for the bus non nasce in un ufficio, ma a Jodhpur, la città blu del Rajasthan. Io, vestita di nero, con la testa piena di domande.
Poi le ho viste. Donne in sari coloratissimi, sedute nella polvere, tra mucche, turbanti e profumo di fiori e spezie.
Ridevano. Erano sotto un albero, alla fermata del loro autobus. Avevano poco, ma avevano qualcosa che io avevo perso: il sorriso.
In quell’istante mi sono chiesta: dove le porterà quell’autobus?
Ci sono autobus persi o presi al volo, per errore o per scelta.
Pieni o vuoti, fermi o in ripartenza.
Come la vita.
Sono tornata a Milano con la visione del mio autobus. Un viaggio attraverso l’Italia, tra luoghi del saper fare: Caltagirone, Vietri, Venezia, Gubbio. Ogni fermata è un artigiano.
Ogni materiale è una memoria che diventa forma.
Waiting for the Bus non ha una sede fissa.
È un dialogo continuo con laboratori e piccole manifatture, dove tradizioni antiche diventano oggetti contemporanei, pensati per vivere ovunque.
Ogni pezzo è una fermata di quel viaggio iniziato a Jodhpur.
E io?
Aspetto la prossima.