Events and cultural exhibitions
Marmomacc Meets Design was a hugely successful appointment at the previous edition of the show. Nine leading companies in the stone industry worked closely with nine internationally famous designers to develop furnishing projects emphasising the scope of marble in repetitive applications. Marble, inasmuch, was transformed from a made-to-measure material for unique applications into the main element of projects that can be replicated on a small scale with an industrial approach.
Marmomacc Meets Design envisages guideline topics that will be developed every year. The 2007 edition focused on “The lightness of marble”: a challenge to gravity and the very nature of stone. The designers tackled the topic with great freedom to interpret "lightness" not only in terms of weight, colour, luminosity, coolness and paleness but also in terms of sustainability – for example, by ensuring the least possible use of material. In fact, these designers played with stone and dimensional scales to reveal unexpected visual aspects and astonishing tactile qualities.
This year's edition focuses on the topic of “Pelle, Skin, Texture”. This is a stimulating and unusual topic within the scope of design, since it is often merely associated with cladding of walls and pavings, or stone slabs used as furnishing tops. Yet the theme was not investigated only in terms of creative potential. For example, stone by its very nature adds a salient feature: the unique colour and veins found in quarry workpieces - the unique origin of the material - can nevertheless be incorporated in repeatable products.
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