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REMAINS

An Exploratory Project in Marble Waste

In italy, where the world’s finest marble has been quarried for millennia, a unique project aims to transform marble industry’s "remains" – its waste – into objects of enduring beauty and innovative design. This exploratory project, made in collaboration with Omniaworks, transcends the simple act of recycling; it’s a poetic reclamation of discarded fragments, a metamorphosis of the past into the future. These ‘remains’ collected from marble 'cemeteries' , aptly describe the desolate landscapes where mountains of discarded marble shards, slabs, and offcuts accumulate. These remnants, once deemed worthless, bear silent witness to the ageold industry of of marble extraction, a testament to time’s passage and the inevitable cycle of creation and decay.

The first series of the REMAINS project features three main pieces along with several small objects:

01 MT Shelving System
02 Ascent Floor Light
03 Flux Table
04 MT Objects