Designs

Dining tables are actually something very personal, in most homes every person usually has a fixed place at meal times. Grandpa, Grandma, Dad and Mom usually occupy the head of the table, and the sons and daughters will usually sit in their ' reserved' chair.

Who has not heard of Antonio Gaudí, a universal figure, indelibly linked to the iconic temple Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona? The impossible curves that never fail to provoke gasps of wonder from those who sees his works for the first time, and ever after.

An original application of natural stone with a huge market potential. Moreover, it is made of small blocks which currently are often wasted. Infinite design possibilities, can be custom made, more horizontal or vertical, small or big, depending on availability of space in the home.

The Gallery Carpenters Workshop in Paris organised during December, 2018, “Architectures”, the first exhibition on functional sculptures designed by the recently deceased Karl Lagerfeld inspired by ancient Greece as the origin of beauty, culture and modernity.  In this exhibition of furniture-sculptures what were displayed were tables, consoles, lamps and mirror frames made of white and black marbles, with a design that combines perfect proportions b

"Polo Sciolto", Luca Facchini / INTERMAC

"Water and Stone- Dialogue between water and stone", is the theme of the 2018 edition of the annual Marmomac fair held in Verona( Italy). In this exhibition, well known designers, in collaboration with Italian stone and machinery companies, get together to display projects in stone elaborated using the latest technologies.

The fair Rocalia, held last December, 2017 in Lyon (France), served as a window to creativity and new applications in natural stone. One of these applications is furniture in homes. Both the exhibitions organised by the fair and some stands in the fair showed interesting creations that we highlight here.

Few people would not have not heard of Antonio López, the greatest living Spanish painter. While his fame derives from his paintings, it was he who designed the marble sculpture “La Mujer de Almanzora”, (“The woman of Almanzora”, in English), the highest in Spain, recently completed and installed during the summer of 2017 in Olula del Río (Almeria).

How many middle class homes exist on the planet? Perhaps difficult to calculate, since the definition of middle class varies from person to person, country to country. An approximate number, with ' middle class' being defined in the western sense, would perhaps lead to number somewhere between 300 to 500 million. Assuming every such home has a dining table, this would also be the number of dining tables in the world.

"KASHUBA DESIGN, a Russian company specialised in luxury interior design and architecture, makes extravagant use of natural stone to highlight its exclusiveness and refinement in its projects. This photoreport of a luxury apartment in Moscow in the Art Decó style is one example. Noble colours, marble, onyx, natural wood, patterned glass and crystal, gilded and silvery details create an atmosphere of luxury and comfort.