The Italian-Colombian designer Lucy Salamanca reinterprets porphyry, the most popular stone used for urban paving across the world, to create new interior design products featuring a light and eco-friendly soul. This is the essence of her latest work, created for the Italian company Odorizzi, a proposal for a different use of stone which is usually known as the material use to pave roads in all four conrners of the globe. A new way to observe and craft material for architects and interior designers to use, created by "interpreting - according to Tiziano Odorizzi - the artisanal and sustainable nature of stone with sensitivity, curiosity and passion: it is naturally coloured, irregular and textured, and can be teamed and used whatever the shape of the extracted piece. “Lucy Salamanca, continues the Managing Director of the Trentino-based company – “has the right approach to stone for Odorizzi, enhancing the value of its natural features." Laser-cut slabs, textured patterns as slim as sheets of paper pierced by light, which creates a series of effects and games that are unexpected from a material such as stone, a lightness of structures to reinvent the uses of the material itself, a wise re-use of waste materials obtained from quarries: this is the message sent by Lucy Salamanca in this project. Lucy Salamanca's works are an integration of nature and technology, which she embellishes with her feminine vision and with her Italian "savoir-faire" teamed with her typical Latin American vitality. These genuine visions look to the future, where the technical aspect is teamed with the culture and requirements of the target market, without the designer imposing her own style. Using porphyry today as a material means not only proposing an unusual material for the world of design, but also working with a material that is timeless, a material filled with history: just think how the great monuments of time were built with porphyry, for instance the red disk that marks the position of the emperor inside the Hagia Sophia Basilica in Istanbul.
Porphyry
- Product Name
- Porphyry
- Manufacturer
- Ghenos
- Manufactured
- Italy
Other products in Floors and Stairs
Product Spotlight Other - floor coverings
Project Spotlight
News
Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjay Puri Architects is an architectural oasis in the desert
Mumbai-based Sanjay Puri Architects has completed the Nokha Village Community Centre, an architectur... More
Square and Tourist Office: Emerging finalist in Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
In this Archello series, we look at each of the seven nominated projects (five architecture finalist... More
25 best mosaic wall tile manufacturers
Mosaic wall tiles are produced in an enormous range of colors, shapes and finishes, and from a varie... More
Introducing Partner Motion Facades
Motion Facades specializes in supplying advanced facade systems for luxury real estate projects. Its... More
Bergendy Cooke, Grégoire Du Pasquier, Ruth Baleiko and Mathew Albores join Archello Awards 2024 jury panel
Architects Bergendy Cooke, Grégoire Du Pasquier, Ruth Baleiko and Mathew Albores have been an... More
JSWD completes new office complex in Bonn unified by triangular facade elements
International architectural firm JSWD has completed the Neuer Kanzlerplatz office complex in the cit... More
Archello Awards 2024 expands with 'Firm Awards'
Today Archello introduces a new set of Firm Awards categories to widen the scope of the Archello Awa... More
Studio Egret West develops plans for new Passivhaus homes
London-based multidisciplinary architecture and design practice Studio Egret West has developed plan... More