Leftover gravestone has been reinvented as side tables and sculptural objects in the Teile series, created by German-Spanish studio Anima Ona and exhibited at the Supersalone fair during Milan design week.
The five pieces in the Teile series are made of scrap stone from a German manufacturer, which receives large stone blocks from all over the world and carves gravestones from them. Anima Ona worked with the offcuts from this process.
Teil 1 is made of limestone and features cylindrical shapes cut down the entire length of one side
Two of the pieces are made of limestone, another is travertine, and the others are green-tinged Alpengrün marble and Silbergrau stone.
While keeping the exterior of the offcuts intact, Anima Ona carved negative space into the interior using core drills that extract material in cylinders, creating patterns like a hole punch on paper. Three different diameters of core drill were used to achieve the effects. Teil 2 is made of travertine and features a similar pattern, made through core drilling
Studio co-founder Freia Achenbach told Dezeen that each unique pattern came about as a response to the qualities of the individual stones.
"We never really know in advance what we were going to get ? it was like really a surprise every time," said Achenbach. "And then we tried to react to the shape of the stone and to the colour."
"No shape is there twice, basically."
Teil 3 is made of Alpengrün marble and has a more square sha...