The plan of alabaster
As a designer and artist immersed in the raw material, Jacopo Foggini goes beyond boundaries and explores new forms and processing methods, also working with natural stone.
As a designer and artist immersed in the raw material, Jacopo Foggini goes beyond boundaries and explores new forms and processing methods, also working with natural stone.
The archetypal shape of the vase is the starting point for a creative exercise surrounding the forms of marble and natural stone. Cambiovaso is the collection of 30 vases designed by as many designers coordinated by gumdesign.
Numerically controlled processes and ancient manufacturing techniques meet to give life to objects of high aesthetic quality.
Graphic references to Bauhaus and cubist inspirations, but above all free and autonomous expression of creativity. Born from these references, Faces, a collection of decorative sculptures in marble and natural stones designed and self-produced by Dainelli Studio.
A table lamp, a sculpture whose concave body emerges from a single carved block of statuary marble from Carrara.
The age-old question is one of waste and what to do with (the so-called "scraps") of processing generated by the pieces left over from an excavation, from a natural stone artifact, or breakages during processing.
Natural stone is one of the preferred materials chosen by Angelo Mangiarotti, with a unique ingenuity applied to projects of every scale, like: the Eros and Incas tables and the outdoor chair Clizia.
Arco and Snoopy Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni bring marble to the Olympus of design, playing on the dynamics of ready-made and irony in the happiest historical period of Italian design.