“I’m working with stone in a totally different way here, shifting a material normally serving for kitchen worktops and bathroom cladding to a more artistic and kaleidoscopic field of expression and building a fantasy world anything can fit into – from furniture to architectural space.” This is how Jaime Hayon, artist-designer from Madrid with a neo-baroque and highly imaginative poetic, sees his latest work for Caesarstone, a point of reference in the world of reconstructed quartz surfaces.
Stone Age
Milan’s Palazzo Serbelloni presents the highly imaginative world of Jaime Hayon who, on this occasion, has tackled the decorative potential of reconstructed stone. #MDW2017
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- La redazione di Domus
- 05 April 2017
- Milan
“Stone Age Folk” is its title and the project showcases imagery employing circus masks and purely geometric decorations to compose a fantasy world inspired by the animal kingdom and the folklore of different cultures, from Hungarian myths to African tribal influences. Dining tables, coffee-tables and cabinets become bird-like and animated characters in this imaginary circus.
As well as small objects, this Fuorisalone event revolves around a large metallic structure incorporating pieces of reconstructed stone, set like precious gems in a filigree reminder of another legendary presence – that of Crystal Palace, the structure designed by Joseph Paxton and erected in Hyde Park for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, conventionally considered to mark the birth of Modernity.
4 – 9 April 2017
Jaime Hayon, Stone Age Folk
Palazzo Serbelloni
corso Venezia 16, Milan