SolidNature and OMA Design an “Immersive Dreamscape” Manufactured from Colourful Pure Stones

Loon and Margheri designed the set up as an “immersive dreamscape”, that includes formations of quarried stone which can be organized to encourage guests to “dream and push the bounds of creativity”.

 

The bottom of the exhibition area includes a sequence of rooms which illustrates the method of formation and processing of pure stone. In collaboration with completely different invited designers, the backyard showcases their particular person tackle processing pure stone into objects.

The journey begins with a grand staircase that leads guests to the underground stage. On the backside of the staircase is a hall lined with translucent onyx slabs, meant to represent the compression of stone and “the slim focus of our every day lives.”

 

The hall is adopted by a room stuffed with cubic monoliths of marble, granite, onyx, and travertine suspended from the ceiling.

A room lined from flooring to ceiling with pink onyx showcases the fabric in several levels of end, together with tough, fluted, hammered, and polished stone.

 

The area, known as the Corridor of Revelations, is designed to symbolize the start of goals and encourage guests to ponder the chances of their imaginations. Past two revolving onyx partitions is a room wrapped in inexperienced marble with vignettes lining the partitions meant to symbolize goals coming true.

The endpoint of Past The Floor is the backyard, embellished with a sculptural stone desk and bar by Sabine Marcelis, a grandstand, and stage designed by Dutch-Italian duo Studio Ossidiana, and purposeful sculptures by Iranian artist Bita Fayaazi.

 

“This 12 months’s exhibition is about nature’s energy; it offers an impression of the processes of compression and solidification that led to the formation of pure stone as we all know it right now,” says Ellen van Loon, Associate of OMA.

“The set up offers a style of the completely different potential therapies, purposes, and approaches of designing with pure stone,” provides Giulio Margheri, Affiliate of OMA.

 

Time was a central narrative when creating the set up, in line with the CEO of SolidNature, David Mahyari who says, “We’re excited to be working with Ellen and Giulio once more for the second set up of our presence in Milan, and to proceed to develop our longstanding relationship with OMA.”

Past the Floor follows on from Monumental Wonders, SolidNature’s first set up designed by OMA, which befell at Alcova throughout Milan Design Week 2022.