Lucie kaas katalog 2017

Lucie Kaas AW17
Feature > Alberto Bellamoli
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Large marble chips
used in the ERAT
collection - from
the factory in
Grezzana, Italy.
Wet cement - when
mixed with small
marble chips it will
become terrazzo.
What was your inspiration be-
would work when cemented
the focus would be entirely
hind the ERAT collection?
together. Even though terrazzo
on terrazzo, even when the
is versatile in its composition
objects were not made entirely
My inspiration behind the
it is not flexible in shape. The
out of terrazzo. So, we tried to
collection is based on the
ERAT collection takes terrazzo
explore the relation of terrazzo
colors that have always been
outside of its conventional form
with other materials. I see all
a part of my surroundings.
through applying it into usable,
the pieces of the collection as
The stones used are some of
everyday products.
small experiments that are
the most traditional Italian
exploring the relation between
marbles transformed into a
How does the merging of
the two different materials. All
new perspective. When starting
materials come into play in the
the pieces are part of the same
“I see all the pieces of the collec-
the design process, I started
with the ‘roots’ of the material.
designs?
family, ERAT, but how the terrazzo
appears and how you can
tion as small experiments that are
exploring the relation between the
I wanted to know where the
stones came from and how they
The idea was to create a
collection of products where
interact with each piece for me
is a completely different story.
two different materials.”