Luca Guadagnino evokes Call Me by Your Name with sensuous peach paperweights for JW Anderson

Director Luca Guadagnino has teamed up with JW Anderson to create a trio of paperweights immortalising the infamous scene from his film Call Me by Your Name, in which actor Timothée Chalamet's character pleasures himself with a peach.

To create the limited-edition memorabilia, the stone fruit was cast entirely in solid bronze, with tear marks illustrating where Chalamet's character Elio ripped out the pit with his fingers.

The pieces were manufactured in the Suffolk foundry of artist Alice Andrea Ewing, who has developed a method for creating bronze casts of real produce from gardens and historical sites across the UK by adapting the Renaissance technique of lost-wax casting.

Any texture lost in the casting process is hand-chiselled back into place, before the peaches are sanded and buffed to a lustrous shine.

The suggestive paperweights were conceived to mark the opening of fashion brand JW Anderson's latest shop on Pimlico Road in London.

This will also sell the brand's growing Home and Garden collection alongside rare interior design pieces, including candle holders by British artist Kira Freije.

"I sometimes feel like I fell into doing fashion, but ultimately the interior part is what I love the most," the fashion house's founder, Jonathan Anderson, told Dezeen during a 2023 interview.

The paperweights mark the latest collaboration between Guadagnino and Anderson, who previously served as costume designer for the director's films Challengers and Queer.

Guadagnino has a long-standing fascination with design and founded his own interiors studio in 2017, around the same time that Call Me by Your Name catapulted him to international acclaim.

His previous projects include a boutique hotel set in a historic Roman palazzo, as well as Aesop stores in the UK and Italy.

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