UC162
india green marble offcuts from industrial manufacturing workshop
200x110x30 cm
Year built
2026
Function
Mirror
Status
No longer available
Stone has always been present in many of our projects — as counterweight, as texture, as the material that grounds a piece built mostly in wood. But this is the first time stone itself became the discarded matter.
Next door to the workshop is one of the best stone suppliers we know — a place we enjoy getting lost in. Like most stone workshops, it has a back yard: a kind of death row, where the offcuts left behind by the grand, magnificent slab that now graces some kitchen or living room wait out their days before the garbage skip comes.
We noticed two broken slab pieces of Indian Green marble, dust-covered in a corner. The stone that had spent millions of years becoming rock with extraordinary veining, that had been quarried and cut and polished into something magnificent, was about to disappear as rubble.
One of the ways materials show their full character is through volume — presence, scale. But stone is heavy. We have our own mineral compound, Amberlite, which we could have loaded with crushed stone dust from the very same marble. But that would have destroyed the veining entirely.
So we found the middle way. We cut the marble into pieces large enough to preserve the veining, thin and small enough to cover a powerfully shaped volume without impossible weight. The result is a majestic mirror with a commanding mineral presence — and a stone that was heading for the skip, finally given the standing it deserved.
