Let It Rock

Whether raw, jagged, tumbled, or stacked, stone pieces are throwing their weight around in interior and exterior environments. From wood carved to resemble a sheer cliff to a bench made of volcanic boulders, these stylish items remain rock-solid choices.

The Fortezza bench from Costantini is a one-of-a-kind functional art bench made from volcanic rock placed on an iron frame. Designed by William Stuart, it is the first piece in a new collection that will explore combinations of the two materials.

Johns’ also has created the Future Fossils collection, whose texture loosely emulates the sedimentary striations in millions-year-old stone. The collection explores positives and negatives of extrusions and voids, in both gypsum cement and slip-cast stoneware.

The unique plaster wallpapers in Affreschi & Affreschi’s Carpe Diem collection play with light and shadow.

Cast concrete objects from Concrete Poetics are brutal, sculptural, and irregular, thanks to the imperfections that occur in the casting process. The pieces’ stacked-disc forms create an almost pixelated effect, bringing to mind digital references in a very analog material.