Materials
2 December 2022
By Goodmoods and Plendi by Vinci Construction.
Age-old know-how • A monthly deciphering of the art and the way of doing things right, imagined by Plendi by Vinci Construction, a general contractor specialising in exceptional projects that juggle rare materials and unique know-how.
The thousand-year-old use of marble for the architecture of ancient Greece and the ornamentation of the Italian Renaissance continues its eternal trajectory in contemporary creation. Less sophisticated than onyx, but just as refined, veined marble has dusted off its austere and outdated image through a thousand and one aesthetics.
Salvatori, Anthony Guerrée and M Editions, Studiopepe and the BOON_ROOM gallery, Theodore Psychoyos, Erik Olovsson: these are the names of the editors and designers who work with the great marble masons to reinvent stone from the four corners of the world, giving life to inert volumes taken from quarries with a statutory language. Moodboard.
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Material
MARBLE
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Composition
CALCITE
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Style
NEW ANTIC
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Resistance
MAXIMUM
Marble as a decorative coating
Yesterday a bit old-fashioned, marble carves out a more contemporary image. Always available in a single-material version from the walls to the floor, including the elements and fronts of the kitchen and the bathroom, it reveals its natural marbling in an eclecticism of styles, sometimes sober and refined, sometimes worked and distinguished.
An eclecticism that can be found as much in the styles as in the work of the marble. The limestone is sometimes left raw to let its polychromatic ribboned grain speak for itself, sometimes magnified according to the ancient art of opus sectile, marble marquetry creating a « patchwork of stone » effect, or it is cut, sculpted, striated, vaguered to the millimeter to reveal its finesse despite its robustness.
Very Simple Kitchen in collaboration with Tekla Evelina Severin © Fredrik Bengtsson
New Antic Retail
Symbol of elegance and refinement, marble is ingeniously used by the luxury brands to compose luxurious sales spaces. At Acne Studios in Stockholm, SPMA in Shanghai or UC Naturel in Guangzhou, the store is transformed into a marble quarry or an antique palace. A New Antic approach with a touch of preciousness that brings Greco-Roman style back into fashion.
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Anthony Guerée’s marble « Fragments »
Fragments collection of Anthony Guerrée and M éditions, Fondation Le Corbusier © Alexandre Tabaste
An antique aesthetic reinvented by the Parisian designer Anthony Guerrée with M Editions (« Les Marbreries de la Seine ») through a series of furniture and objects carved in marble extracted from the courtyard of the marble factory of Pavillons-sous-bois. Entitled « Fragments » and presented by the Fondation Le Corbusier, the collection questions two myths of architecture: the three ancient Greek orders (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and Le Corbusier.
Studiopepe’s recycled marble
Marble retouched with contemporaneity
With an ever more experimental approach, artists and designers are transforming millennial stones into reinvented everyday objects. In the cutting-edge creations of Theodore Psychoyos, Hoi Kaloi, Erik Olovsson, Bloc Studios and Salvatori, limestone is shown to be uninhibited, emancipated from its snobbish and fixed image.
Collection Raw Objects by Theodore Psychoyos © Giorgos Sfakianakis & Michel Sedan
Marbled wardrobe
Fashion, always on the lookout for new prints, is also making a career out of marble this season. Kiko Kostadinov, Peter Do or Dries Van Notten draw their patterns from the majestic veins of marble and sign moiré collections that plunge the wardrobe into the deposits of Carrara or Alentejo.
A deciphering imagined with the complicity of Plendi by Vinci Construction, which juggles with rare materials and singular know-how for its exceptional achievements.
