American designer Kelly Wearstler has unveiled her Nudo furniture collection in an installation at stone company Arca's showroom during Miami art week.
The collection features 16 pieces of furniture, including chairs and tables, and six accessory pieces such as platters and bowls to complement the furniture.
Kelly Wearstler released a line of furniture with Arca at Miami Art Week
Wearstler designed the pieces using marble supplied by the Miami-based stone company Arca.
"With these designs, I was deeply interested in exploring the possibility of creating a real softness through curvaceous shapes within the fortitude of marble," said Wearstler. "A nuanced and sensual interplay of suppleness and strength."
Nudo includes 16 marble furniture objects Wearstler's creations all feature different coloured-stone that was shaped in a way that resembles bounded cords. According to Wearstler, woven textures informed the way the stone was cut.
"The universal craft of weaving is rooted in ancient cultures from across the globe and each piece in Nudo pays homage to that history," she said.
The designs were based on weaving practices
A variety of marble types gave the Nudo pieces their multi-colour range, including verde tikal, pink marble, white beauty and calcite blue marble.
For the installation, Wearstler turned the interior of the Arca showroom ? which was designed by Eraswe Studio and Superflex ? into a lush, fabric-lined environment.
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