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