Brand: Swatch
Concept: Giorgio Canale
Production: Biasi Emilio & Figli Industria Marmi Material: Bianco di Carrara

How big can a Swatch be? As big as 2.10 mts. actually – the Maxi Swatch is a playful and bigger than life interpretation of the most iconic Swatch shape. It has been interpreted by artists such as Damien Hirst and Folon, fashion designers such as Castelbajac and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, movie directors such as Luc Besson and Almodovar, designers such Massimo Giacon and Alessandro Mendini; it became Tin Tin, Mickey Mouse and Corto Maltese, it was a symbol of the Atlanta Olympic Games and of the Festival del Cinema in Locarno and now, in marble!

Brand: Antoniolupi
Design: Marco Di Paolo
Production: Grassi Pietre
Material: Pietra Di Vicenza Grigio Alpi Spazzolato

The Fida bathtub is inspired by nature. Fida is a real sculture carved from a monolith of brushed Vicenza Grey Alpi Stone. The material with a typical light gray color, characterized by the presence of macrofossils, gives the Fida bathtub a modern encounter between material and functionality.
The external line takes its cue from the organic forms of the woods of the rivers, which give the work a feeling of fluidity. The edges are rounded and the lines smooth. The inside of the bathtub is an ergonomic and carefully designed environment to convey safety and comfort. Fida fits harmoniously into environments, giving them their own atmosphere. Organic but symmetrical, contained but provocative, it responds to different needs.

Brand: Tonino Lamborghini Casa – Formitalia Group
Design: Formitalia Design Studio
Production: Marmi Ghirardi
Material: Breccia Aurora Marina Blu, Nero Assoluto, Breccia Light

Model TL-2491, dining table and mirror is part of the latest Tonino Lamborghini Casa collection, volume 6, characterised by a new style for the brand, very decorative.
Formitalia Luxury Group chose this new model for the presentation at the Brand & Stone event at Marmomac, entrusting the creation to a great specialist such as Marmi Ghirardi, which chose to present it at the event. Marmi Ghirardi, who chose exclusive marbles such as Breccia Aurora Marina Blu and Nero Assoluto for the mirror. The same Breccia Aurora Marina Blu is used for the 150 cm diameter tabletop.
“We start with a careful selection of blocks directly from our own quarries, cut the thicknesses to size and define the shapes of the elements with a bridge saw and lathe. Finally, our craftsmen finish and assemble the parts to create the finished product.”

Brand: Baxter
Design: Studiopepe.
Production: Bagnara
Material: Quarzite Verde Lapponia

Dharma is a collection of outdoor pieces, here presented as a preview in a special marble version and carried out as unique pieces. Dharma draws inspiration from the peculiar cooperation among Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Indian local workforce, which led to the creation of the iconic city of Chandigarh in the 50’s of last century. This collection, from a formal point of view, explores the relationship between East and West and, therefore, the contact between a handcrafted reality and the industrial design. Pure geometries, vaults and concrete full volumes of Chandigarh’s architectural elements are reinterpreted, giving shape to the poetry of furniture, enhancing the quality of the raw material, that is marble.

Brand: Il Fanale
Design: Giorgio Canale, Matteo Zorzenoni
Production: Stonethica by Petris
Material: Carrara Mix and Pietra Gray

In the original version, the Bloom lamp by Matteo Zorzenoni, recalls the preciousness of antique perfume bottles and the shape of oriental diffusers of essences.
For Brand & Stone 3.0, Giorgio Canale interprets the shapes of these beautiful table lamps by Il Fanale, creating a floor composition called Seven Bloom.
Precious pastel glass, irregular heights and contrasting finishes, enhance the materiality of the recycled stones by Stonethica and create a dynamic set with a strong character. The materials selected for Seven Bloom are a Carrara Mix, a variety of Carrara and Grey Stone, characterized by warm gray-brown tones, with light white veins.

Brand: MK Cucine
Design: Giorgio Rava
Production: Marini Marmi
Material: Nuvolato di Grè

Since the dawn of time, man scratches the earth’s crust in the search of life. In the stone, he imagines archetypal shapes and spaces to satisfy earthly needs and finds a connection with the spirit and the eternal. Sculpture thus becomes man’s first act of creation, origin of a design thought that reaches us through the millennia. Through the Sculptura kitchen I wanted to express the inseparable bond that unites project and sculptural gesture, rediscovering a profound and artistic value in its function.
Function becomes sculpture, abstract material, monolith, in an archaic balance between past and present, mass and emptiness, solidity and lightness. Far from the contemporary practice in which stone is used as a mere cladding skin, Sculptura rediscovers the energy and archaic strength of the mineral element that resides in its wholeness, in its heavy mass, in the depth of its soul.

Brand: Penta
Design: Giorgio Canale
Production: Map Slate
Material: Ardesia Ligure

With this off-scale lamp, the architect Giorgio Canale interprets for Penta Light the theme of a street lamp. The two wide domes embrace and illuminate the spaces below as the slate base becomes furniture.
This huge floor lamp was born from the idea of dressing large residential and hospitality spaces, customizing the environments with light and modular supporting surfaces in natural stone. The block used for the exposed work comes from a Ligurian quarry, split and reduced into 5 cm “sheets” thanks to the skilled artisans and the use of a chisel technique. The base, worked with numerical control machines of the latest generation in technology, is assembled and finished entirely by hand.

Brand: Qeeboo Milano
Design: Stefano Giovannoni
Production: Testi Group
Material: Moleanos

Teddy Boy, one of the iconic products designed by Stefano Giovannoni for Qeeboo that represents the emotional object par excellence, turns into a majestic, one meter high, marble object.
Teddy winks to the traditional toy with an irreverent attitude mixing teddy bear’s traits with “almost human” features.