Caesarstone Gets Designer’s Touch in Milan
MILAN, Italy — Caesarstone will continue its collaboration with a Japanese design studio here next month with new design concepts for its quartz surfaces.
Tokyo-based nendo will offer two installations of work at the Fuori Salone 2013 on April 9-13 at Palazzo Crivelli in the Brera Design District.
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The work is a result of Caesarstone’s invitation to Oki Sato, nendo’s chief designer, to engage with the quartz surfaces to emphasize the material’s strength, durability and design.
One installation, the Stone-Edge Table collection consists of seven wooden tables, embellished with corner and leg details made from Caesarstone’s Classico collection as a decorative and protective element.
“The subtle stone elements are incorporated to make the tables stronger, while drawing focus to the seamless coexistence with the wood,” Sato noted. “The seven tables vary slightly in size and proportions, each with a different type of Caesarstone.”
The second installation, StoneGarden, will be displayed in a new formation from its original presentation at IDS13 in Toronto. It consists of some 200 table-like elements made out of seven different surfaces and nine different colors, each supported by a simple metal rod and secured by an overlapping design. The elements are clustered together to form the appearnce of a floating landscape.
The simplicity of the design reflects nendo’s minimalistic approach, while exhibiting the quality, functionality and creativity of Caesarstone.
“The installation explores the boundary between ‘furniture’ and ‘non-furniture,’” Sato says. “Tables that aren’t quite tables form a cluster, creating a new kind of ground surface like a garden floating in the universe, far beyond the scale of individual tables. The unique variety and quality of colors and textures of the Caesarstone surfaces are perfect to be arranged in a composition like the stylized landscape of a Japanese rock garden.”
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