An installation that investigates marble’s potential, treating it as not a two-dimensional wall covering, but rather as a fluid material that fills the space that passes through it. The marble slabs form an ever-changing skin that varies depending on the observer’s position, creating a light, intimate atmosphere. The light slipping over the marble surface envelops the observer in a primordial nucleus, on the borderline between the material and the immaterial.

The textures analysed by Marco Piva create a vibrant relationship with space, creating a fascinating, changing play of light and shade, with a strong contrast between transparency and opacity and between lightness and weight.

After the success of Marbleous Garden, the garden of stone, presented by Interni Design Energies and Marmomacc Verona Fiere, Patricia Urquiola leads us through a digital-biological microcosm, a fascinating environment inhabited by natural forms that are usually invisible, those of vegetable micro organisms (the micrasterias).

Spa and relax zone with hydromassage tub. Inlaid wall in onyx in a variety of warm shades and emerald green onyx.

The United Nations has proclaimed 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. So how can inorganic stone - through its use and from its extraction to its presentation in everyday life - acquire a living quality? Surfaces, shapes, thicknesses and colours are the instruments through which the design acquires a dynamic and changeable character in space and time. The transformation of the quarry-extracted product, added to human creative genius, makes its mark on the stone, beginning with works of art and ending with the everyday use of objects. The designed space is linked by a series of pathways that show the diversity of the use of stone in the living space.
- Luca Rossi -

London designer Mark Humphrey restyled the Mount Street Shizaru Gallery in London with an original inlaid floor of Bianco Sivec and Nero Belgio marble modules. The piece, entitled "FLYING CARPET", consists of a mass of peacocks.