Limited edition 1/36

design: Paolo Ulian & Moreno Ratti

year: 2015

Size: 25/40cm height

photo: Paolo Ulian & Moreno Ratti

What you can get from one marble tile 40×40? From the marble tiles found in dusty warehouses of our craft companies? What things can be made by cutting with water jet machine, assembling simply the pieces without creating waste material?

The last object born to this research is Little Gerla a collection of 4 vases of different sizes and shapes obtained from a single Marble tiles of cm. 40x40x3 without producing waste material. With waterjet cutting the tile is divided into four equal pieces of cm. 20x20x3 and from each of? these concentric rings are formed with a very thin thickness,? about 4 mm which, superimposed and rotated among themselves, go to make the shapes of the four vases. Vases very lightweight as if? they were made of porcelain, whose surface is characterized by the natural texture left by the cutting of the waterjet.

Nowadays the carrara white marble is considered more and more to be sold per ton than ever before. Usually the blocks are covered with resin to increase the stress resistance imparted by the cutting machine used to obtain slabs (2-3 cm thickness). The collection designed for the “MarmoTrilogy” has been inspired by this process with the intention to emphasize the material and the artisan know-how to obtain unique and not replicable objects.

The marble pieces are achieved by using waste material coming from coring. The resin symbolizes the discarded material (spectrum) that a careless use would take to produce the same marble piece.

design: Moreno Ratti_ 2016

Skillfully milled from a single piece of Carrara marble and finished at each end with bands of brushed brass,?

Tube contains a strip of LED bulbs resulting in what appears to be a solid length of warm glowing stone. The?

unique veins of each piece of marble mean no two lights are exactly the same. A handcrafted twist on the

traditional fluorescent tubelight.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Dimensions: dia. 70mm w 970mm

Materials: Carrara marble, brushed brass

Bulb: 1 x internal LED strip 30w/long life/2700 k/warm white

Voltage: 220-240v or 110-130v