Industrial designer Robin Grasby used Altrock, a material created from cuts of marble suspended in resin, in his new desk collection. As part of the 2019 London Design Fair, the collection was displayed as a coffee table, console and dining table to show the flexibility of the material.
The material, a type of terrazzo made of 87% recycled stone from luxury marble workshops, was introduced at the end of 2018. The collection was specially designed to showcase the possibilities of Altrock's production method, which can produce a kaleidoscope of colors using different resins and stones.
The boards can also be assembled into a number of geometric shapes using a method called a set square. While the slabs were being cut, the surface was reinforced with the continuation of the marble pieces around it, and Grasby states that it "folds" with virtually no waste.
This continuous effect is created using a color matching technique to adjust the resin used to bond the plates to both the base color of the materials and the colors of the large marble pieces inside.
Grasby stated that using marble as they do - broken pieces on Altrock - aims to showcase its raw beauty. Broken edges and chaotic shapes give the stone back some of the texture and material that was lost when the material was used intact in a broad finish.
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