SolidNature’s ’Beyond the Surface’ wins Fuorisalone Award for Best Installation
The ’Beyond the Surface’ installation by OMA Studio for SolidNature invited visitors to a subterranean journey and a secret garden in the heart of Milan.
HENGE: a contemporary urban circle made of Jurassic stone brings people together in London
Inspired by Neolithic stone circles, the HENGE installation and gathering space “creates a space separate from the outside world.”
Sabine Marcelis’ vibrant urban seats playfully swivel in London
Materiality, movement, gravity, and colour swivel at SolidNature and Sabine Marcelis’ interactive installation for London Design Festival.
Mexican volcanic rocks shine and float in David Pompa’s ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ lighting design collection
With the ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ collection, David Pompa balances metal and volcanic rock to create exquisite suspended lighting designs.
September floor lamp by Fernando Mastrangelo celebrates Nature in the Post-Antropocene
With its carved organic body and brass branches embracing a luminous glass globe, Fernando Mastrangelo’s ‘September’ floor lamp delivers a ‘sort of’ optimistic message on the climate change issue. Because Nature will survive us and thrive again.
Giorgio Rava reflects on our ancestral relationship with water with the ‘Anima Liquida’ sculptural stone sink for Antoniolupi
Stone and water. These are the only elements that makeup ANIMA LIQUIDA, the new freestanding sink signed by Giorgio Rava for Antoniolupi.
In Milan, designers rethink marble and stone with sustainability in mind
Stefan Scholten, Birgitte Due Madsen and Studio Pepe present exquisite design projects challenging unsustainable marble and stone production processes.
‘Flowing Fragments’’ furniture collection by Richard Yasmine raises awareness on antiques trafficking
Classic geometries and minimal contemporary aesthetics blend in Richard Yasmine’s ‘Flowing Fragments’ design collection made from upcycled sedimentary and basaltic stones.
OMA’s Gwanggyo Galleria combines a bold stone façade with protruding rugged glass
Luxury department store Galleria in Gwanggyo dialogues with the nature and architecture of the new South Korean city inviting visitors to engage with architecture and culture as they shop.
CYPRAEA celebrates Mauritius’ fragile soul through responsible design
Lava and tempered glass tables creating awareness on rising sea levels and a shelf inspired by waves and ripples created as the water flows on the endangered coral sea floor. CYPRAEA reinterprets the luxurious nature of Mauritius through an innovative design collection with a sustainable message.
DWM17: 6 emerging Mexican designers experiment with volcanic stone and concrete
Semi-liquid pastel-coloured stone, porous lava-rock vessels and responsible radiators. 6 emerging Mexican designers mesh traditional crafts with urban style.
Albert Adrià and RCR Arquitectes design mysterious ENIGMA restaurant in Barcelona
Renowned chef Albert Adrià and Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes inaugurate ENIGMA restaurant which will create ever changing menus inspired by mysterious interiors developed in collaboration with Neolith® by TheSize.
Stone Age Folk: Jaime Hayon’s kaleidoscopic pavilion in Milan
At Caesarstone’s Stone Age Folk exhibition, African masks and bird-like furniture by Jaime Hayon animate the halls and the ballroom of a Milanese Napoleonic Palazzo.
Unbreakable design: casting style with concrete, quartz, marble and lava
Arik Levy, Ivanka, gt2P and more launch a new trend for unbreakable design in Miami. Heavy to lift, comfortable to sit on and great to look at.
Quality of Materials by Fort Standard features stone cabinets and chairs entirely made in leather
New York design studio Fort Standard paired traditional methods of production with innovative ways to create the new Quality of Materials collection.
Vertical cemetery: a respectful reconversion of a grain silo on Malmö harbour
Swedish students propose to turn a disused grain silo into a columbarium-inspired vertical cemetery as a sensitive solution for Malmö port area.
Marble Reloaded
Embraced geometries and optical irreverence, exotic allure and oblique dynamism: Manuel Barbieri designed Scandola Marmi band-new flooring collections reinterpreting marble with a less statuary yet refined attitude.