The availability on the market of new design and processing technologies has highlighted extraordinary opportunities for turning stone materials into complex artefacts in technical and formal terms.
In particular, their compatibility with very sophisticated design became immediately apparent with the potential for manufacturing artefacts with machines alone, and consequently automated mass-production, that until now were produced using craftsman methods.
Industrial replication is one of the basic factors behind the success of products by top Italian designers and their commercial viability, says the organisers of
The implementation of new generation digital systems means that even stone material processing can benefit from technical aspects such as precision, work speed and reduced waste, that are critical for mass-production of formally complex objects and the attainment of performance levels comparable to those for other lighter materials.
The New Marble Generation exhibition at Marmomacc 2016, curated by Raffaello Galiotto and Vincenzo Pavan, aims to develop prototypes of high quality design products intended for mass-production.
The event organisers say that collaboration between internationally renowned designers and architects and companies in the stone industry keen to find new research approaches has achieved an innovative experimental experience with materials demonstrating their technical and processing skills.
The resulting artefacts are on show in a special set-up inside Hall 1 (The Italian Stone Theatre), and focus on interior and exterior furniture components as well as mass-produced architectural design items.
The designers have worked across several theme-based sections, adapting the stone materials chosen by the curators to these purposes.
The New Marble Generation exhibition is part of the Italian Stone Theatre project developed by Marmomacc with support of the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE); ICE-Italian Trade Agency, and Confindustria Marmomacchine within the scope of the Special Made in Italy Promotion Plan valorising excellence in the Italian natural stone and related technology fields.
