Designer Stefan Scholten has aimed to create a sense of luxury out of waste in The Stone House, his first solo project after disbanding Scholten & Baijings.
Displayed as part of Masterly, the Dutch exhibition at Milan design week, the Stone House installation was made entirely out of waste marble and travertine sourced from quarries around Italy.
The Stone House exhibition evoked the idea of a house through the inclusion of domestic elements
The waste was fashioned into objects such as walls, furniture and even a stone "carpet" ? enough elements to create the suggestion of a full house beyond them.
The pieces feature natural colours and patterns that are unusual for marble. Scholten intended that this element of surprise could spur viewers to see the material in a new light. The exhibition included a "carpet" with a complicated book-match pattern
The designer is based in both Amsterdam and Carrara, the home of Italian marble, and conceived the project with the brand Stone Made Italy to address the issue of the industry's excess waste.
"We came up with the idea to upcycle marble, but we wanted to do something really special," Scholten told Dezeen. "There are already projects where they glue all kinds of waste material into one slab, but we wanted to get a higher level, almost to create a new luxury."
"Because marble is, of course, always referring to luxury in a way," he continued. "Once you've quarried it you don't ...