Marble and stones and such, in the ‘thinking of the hands’ of the designers of the third millennium – from the Tuscan countryside to Rome, Moscow to Shanghai – become ‘matter’ for new ideas and solutions.

“We are like dwarves upon the shoulders of giants”, said the philosopher Bernard of Chartres in 1120, “so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size”.

Project: Alessandro e Francesco Mendini
Sponsor: Elegant Living

Surface represents the regular, alternating variations of forms in the passage of time.

Project: Michele De Lucchi
Partner: Philippe Nigro
Lighting: Artemide
Sponsor: Listone Giordano, Marzorati Ronchetti and Publistand.

A vantage point, an invitation to look at beautiful things

Monica Armani
with Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Four high walls in lamellar solid X-Lam wood cut with openings, containing mirrors and lights that interact with the gaze of visitors in the installation XL Wood created by Monica Armani.

Odile Decq
with Fiandre

The French architect prompts reflection on geometry and perspective, and on three dimensional effects.

Project: Massimo Iosa Ghini
Partner: FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti
Lighting: iGuzzini

The tower, over 9 meters high, designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini, is covered with large ceramic sheets by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, and enlivened by the play of LED lights from iGuzzini.

with ITALCEMENTI i.lab

Clearly a work by Meier, the i.lab, the new Center of Research and Innovation of Italcementi, is an extraordinary piece of architecture, due to its elegance and its construction technique made possible by exceptional technical-scientific expertise and sophisticated engineering.

Ludovica e Roberto Palomba
with Zucchetti.Kos e Payanini

Eau Vive is a parallelepiped in white Payanini onyx that contains the Faraway outdoor minipool by Zucchetti.Kos; the interaction between the very pure natural material and a refined industrial product represents, for Ludovica+Roberto Palomba, the mediation between nature and artifice found in a design system.

SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
with Carrara Marmotec, Franchi Umberto Marmi, Gemeg, Il Fiorino, Italmarble Pocai, Marmi Carrara, MT&S, Sagevan Marmi, Sam, Savemae Antonio Lupi, Jove, Sampietro 1927, Up Group
Lighting: Martinelli Luce


Two high walls of white marble form a geometric route: the installation made with Carrara Marmotec symbolizes the relationship between architecture and this noble, natural material.

zhang Ke /Standardarchitecture
with Camerich
Lighting: iGuzzini


Three self-supporting towers made with backlit steel panels, thanks to the Camerich furnishings brand. A reference to the ancient Chinese lifestyle, a perspective of sustainable development.

Akihisa Hirata
with Panasonic

Based on the most widespread natural process in the world, the solar panel pavilion created by the Japanese architect with Panasonic gives concrete form to the ecosystem

Jacopo Foggini
with Maip

The Flysch installation by Jacopo Foggini is a fantastic vision, based on the forms of the course of a river through a colorful land

Speech Tchoban & Kuznetsov
with Taltos

The gaze of the architect interprets the historical legacy, mediating reality, foreseeing the future: it is represented by a reflecting sphere with a mobile pupil, made in collaboration with Taltos.

Matteo Ragni
con Camparisoda and Verallia

Eighty sheet metal profiles surround a large origami that contains the famous aperitif bottles, in the installation created with Camparisoda and Verallia.

Przemyslaw “Mac” Stopa
with Samsung Cheil Industries

ELENA SELINA
for BE OPEN
project Paola Navone

Seven works between art and design

by Scholten&Baijings
for MINI