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News • News • 10 Jul 2023
Marble employed as an object of contemplation in sobre GEMEG showroom transformation
In Carrara, Italy, architect Victor Vasilev has completed the transformation of an industrial building owned by the Tuscan company GEMEG into a showroom to display one of the most precious materials used in architecture and art – marble. A world leader in the extraction and commercialization of Carrara White, as well as Statuario and Calcutta marble, GEMEG has been working with this material since 1993, transforming it into today’s well-known trends in interior design.
Leo Torri
With a precise and technical volume, the building is consistent both inside and outside, with a prevalence of grays that shape a pure and essential container. The main façade is punctuated by a monumental colonnade that spans the b... More
Product • By SENSO | THINK UNITED • Superquartz®
Superquartz®
Durable composite flooring made from ground marble and biopolymer. Suitable for hightraffic areas and buildings with high footfall.
Superquartz is a system that uses biopolymers in a blend with crushed marble aggregate. Creating a tough and durable flooring solution which is both longlasting as well as achieving high elastic properties. It can be applied seamlessly across large surfaces and has a low cost of lifecycle. More
Momento Beach
The willingness to create a volume with minimal impact was one of the bases for the intervention project: the effort to create a lightweight container, transparent, "camouflaged" in the context guided the volumetric and typological choice with the goal of achieving a result of remodeling of the environment. It is indeed a shaped parallelepiped, completely transparent on three sides and blind only on the back which houses the support services to the business place. The roof is flat. The main structure is designed in metal frames painted in sand color, in the same tone of color is the outer skin of the building in a horizontal metal slats, while the inside face is covered in natural wood that is also in horizontal slats. The empty spaces are... More
cappello
cappello is a modest tribute to Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and Ingo Maurer — designers who have given molo (and the world) much joy and inspiration. The Carrara marble base is extracted from the base of the iconic floor lamp designed by the Castiglioni brothers in 1962. cappello is lit by LED and shaded by a paper cap, or “cappello” in Italian. A simple magnetic connection allows the shade to slide to any position along the steel wire that springs from the marble base. The magnetic connection also allows the paper cap to tilt, adjusting the direction of the light and giving this little table lamp a gestural quality. More