Steel on marble

#125 A line of marble tables by Lawrence Steele for Marsotto Edizioni, Steel on Marble pushes stone to its limits, creating unexpected thicknesses and 3D effects. #salone2015

Lawrence Steel, Steel on marble, Marsotto
Entrusting this latest collection to Lawrence Steele, Studio Irvine’s artistic direction opted to inject a little of the fashion world into Marsotto edizioni and explore new design angles.
The American fashion designer turned chamfering and edges into delicate hems and seams while also addressing the limits of the natural marble material with an often hard but fragile warp and weave.
Lawrence Steel
Lawrence Steele

Steel tackled the design of these tables as if he were producing sculptures and adopted a faceting technique to bring out the qualities of the stone. He chose white Carrara and black Marquina marble, exploring their innate graphic features and turning chamfering and edges into delicate hems and seams.

The American fashion designer explains that he pushed material to its limits and that “working with a thickness of just 5 mm generated a transparency not commonly found in the marble universe.” Steel allowed the overlap of the two stone colours to remain visible, giving it a clearly decorative function like a jacket hem, saying, “I come from the fashion world and being frivolous is part of who I am.”


Steel on marble
Design: Lawrence Steele

April 14–19, 2015
Marsotto
Spazio Bigli
via Bigli 11, Milano

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