Lucy Salamanca creates new interior products with porphyry
Italian-Colombian designer Lucy Salamanca has reinterpreted porphyry, the most popular stone used for urban paving across the world, to create new eco-friendly interior design products for the Italian company Odorizzi Porfidi.
Lucy Salamanca devised a system for the sustainable use of stone which envisages new methods of finishing, pre-assembly and application. These projects were applied in the creation of the Odorizzi booth, which was presented for the first time at Marmomacc 2012.
Salamanca worked with Odorizzi to create three different uses for porphyry, depending on the technique and application. The first is an outdoor cladding product created by retrieving and assembling irregular slabs of porphyry, i.e. irregular-shaped material recovered from quarries. The second is again an outdoor cladding system achieved with regular cuts which retain the original appeal of the single blocks they are obtained from. It also makes it possible during assembly to rebuild the pattern and natural grain and chromatic hues of the cold and warm colours of the rock they are sourced from.
The third product is a system of enlightened stone obtained from slate, sandstone and porphyry quarries, which envisages the extraction and use of sheets of fine stone to be applied to walls, even the most extensive sized walls, mainly for interior design. In addition to the light weight character of the material obtained by stripping the quarries of thin layers of stone, a laser and water jet drilling process makes the panels even lighter in terms of styling too, with filtering light passages.
Lucy Salamanca's project for Odorizzi Porfidi also won Best Communicator Award at Marmomacc 2012 for most innovative booth that best portrays the theme of the edition: "The Colours of Green: Sustainable Stone".
