Time, money and patience to achieve a sustainable and competitive result
Diego Grandi: “The melamine cannot replace natural stones and kitchen worktops impose a tactile and visual, as well as functional, relationship that is very different from that found with other surfaces. There is a different scale and a different point of view, a closer tactile and visual relationship.
After two years of research, tests and prototypes we arrived at a satisfactory result. Mathera is a panel made of regenerated material covered with a layer composed of wood powders, stones and quartz with an infinitesimal thickness. The production process is clean, does not contain formaldehyde, the aesthetic result is very convincing and the performance is very high.
The work of design for industrial sustainability
Diego Grandi: “I was asked to give life to surface life and imagine a collection capable of making the new material readable. There is a different scale and a different point of view, a tactile and closer relationship.
The initial request was to facilitate Saib's entry into the world of cooking. I worked with an imaginary linked to natural materials: stone, granite, plaster. Three different collections were born: Selce, Areia and Gypso. They are three-dimensional samplings of sandstone, chalk and split flint surfaces.
Every single collection recalls the chromatic scale of the material of origin. Cold grays for flint, warm colors for chalk, granules of quartz dust that make the surface uneven for sandstone.
The application of the coating is done in three steps: the mixture of natural stone powders is spread on the chipboard, it is humidified, printed to achieve a three-dimensional texture and ends with an infrared passage.