| MARMOMACC MEETS DESIGN |
For its 42th edition, Marmomacc International Exhibition of Stone, Design and Technology, addresses a repositioning of its cultural mission. With the 2007 edition thus becomes Marmomacc "Architecture and Design" and opens a new section: Marmomacc Meet Design.
Marmomacc Meet Design wants to bring professionals, planners, designers and marble's companies, with suitable proposals to begin a story as important as the material used. A commitment that arises now that wants to become a world of ideas and propose that each year a theme that will try to seize the signs of life-style and to capture the subtle movements and progressive society.
This first meeting is supported by ten designers and ten companies that have created design projects on the theme "The lightness of marble".
Ten international designers engaged a design research to envision the possible features of industrial products made of marble. The results were on show following a specific path within the Marmomacc fair.
Riccardo Blumer linked lightness to floating and designed a bunch of buoyant stone containers for Cedal Graniti.
Denis Santachiara made marble transparent and sharp in order to design for Testi Fratelli an illuminated kitchen desk holding a set of marble knives.
The stand of Santa Margherita by Marco Piva fully developed the range of possible uses of slabs of quartz, whose varying textures animated walls, floors, tables, and lamps.
To highlight the qualities of Pietra della Lessinia, Simone Micheli conceived a modular device which can apply both to simple display and to raw material for the building up of a whole space.
Alberto Meda created an illuminated outdoor table for Campolonghi, simply piling up several marble rings of shrinking dimensions in order for light to filter through the slots.
Michele De Lucchi with Philippe Nigro illuminated a group of stone house models: with a marble suspension luminaire for Piba Marmi.
Kengo Kuma, really appreciated the features of the pietra serena, the same Michelangelo used for his sculptures. He created a three dimensional module made of three slabs as thin as possible mounted in triangles. This building modules produced a firm, see-through and transparent structure for the stand of Il Casone.
Odile Decq presented a miniarchitecture for Rocamat, produced through the most up-to-date technologies in transformation and manufacturing: a three dimensional, all round, and imposing object, defiant of the law of gravitation and compounding architecture, design, and sculpture.
Aldo Cibic switch the perception of the pietra of Vicenza to lightness: his exhibit design for the stand of Grassi Pietre encompasses a stone garden enclosed with two curtains of stone blades.
Tobia Scarpa manipulated fragments of a variety of marbles, mixed with various aggregates bonded using Portland cement. The new block is then cut into slabs producing brand new textures for Agglonord.
The theme also wants to encourage designers to think in terms of relative lightness also the enormous increase in mobility that is characterizing our life.
Lightness and weight are two trend, which will travel together, even if much of the design culture in recent years has been a continuous attempt to steal weight, as has already happened in literature, theater, fashion, art, architecture.
Marmomacc
Verona, 4/7 October 2007
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Edited by:
Federica Capoduri
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in cooperation with:
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