Tucker Series by Deta Studio turns acoustic architecture into quiet design objects
Tucker Series furniture collection by Deta Studio is a limited series of functional design objects developed in Puglia, southern Italy, as part of inBlue, Modern Wunderkammer. Created by Antonio Delizotti and Giuseppe Tarantino, the creative duo behind Deta Studio, Tucker Series: A Silence Series translates the geometry of historic acoustic mirrors into objects that balance domestic function, material presence, and quiet formal discipline.
The collection takes its name and conceptual reference from Major William Sansome Tucker, whose work was connected to the monumental parabolic concrete sound mirrors built along the English coastline. These structures were designed to capture and focus distant sound waves before the development of radar. Deta Studio does not reproduce them literally. Instead, the studio extracts their essential language: the square as a sign of order, measure, and stability, and the circle as a figure of time, movement, and breath.
Through this dialogue between straight lines and curved volumes, Tucker Series creates objects suspended between rigor and slowness. The pieces appear calm, almost immovable, yet their geometry suggests tension and relation. Each object is shaped through intersections, voids, and balanced proportions, turning pure forms into tactile presences. In contemporary interiors marked by speed, noise, and visual excess, the Tucker objects act as silent anchors, offering a measured counterpoint to daily chaos.
Craftsmanship is central to Tucker Series. The project positions making not as decoration, but as a cultural and productive system rooted in territory. Its production is connected to the Puglia region, where local knowledge, manual skill, and material sensitivity become part of the collection’s identity. This approach gives the work a sustainable dimension, not through rhetoric, but through proximity, limited production, and respect for regional expertise.
Tucker Series: A Silence Series is included in inBlue, Modern Wunderkammer, a curated project dedicated to objects made by master craftspeople from different cultures and places. Within this context, Deta Studio places contemporary design in conversation with traditional materials and slow processes. The result is a collection that carries a deliberate contradiction: it looks to historical architecture and obsolete acoustic technology while affirming the relevance of local craftsmanship today.
Founded by Antonio Delizotti and Giuseppe Tarantino, Deta Studio works across product design, digital culture, engineering, photography, and collaborative research. The studio’s practice is based on what it describes as considered contradictions, where change becomes a way to rediscover identity rather than erase it. With Tucker Series, this philosophy becomes physical. The collection gives form to silence, using geometry, craft, and memory to create functional objects with lasting spatial presence.
Photography by Nunzia Tarantino, with courtesy of Deta Studio
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