Gravestone Leftovers Live Once More As Unique Sculpture Side Tables
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
As part of the Supersalone fair at Milan Design Week this year, German design studio Anima Ona showcased side tables and sculptural objects made from leftover gravestone.
Spanning five pieces, the works in the Teile series were made of stone sourced from a German gravestone manufacturer. After the manufacturer is finished using a large block of stone to carve the gravestone from, the offcuts are used by Anima Ona to create these truly one-of-a-kind stone pieces.
Two of the pieces are made from limestone, one from travertine, and the others from Alpengrün marble and Silbergrau stone.
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
The exterior of these offcuts remains largely intact, says the studio, while negative space is cut into the interior with core drills. These “pull” the material out in a cylinder, forming the spherical imprints on the individual pieces. To get the shapes of varying size, three different drill diameters were used.
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Each individual piece sports a unique pattern, and this comes as a response to the qualities of the stones themselves. “No shape is there twice, basically,” Freia Achenbach, co-founder of the studio, tells Dezeen.
“We never really know in advance what we were going to get—it was like really a surprise every time. And then we tried to react to the shape of the stone and to the colour.”
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
While Teile 01-04 (above) are more similar in structure, the fifth in the series sports an additional feature: adaptable, flexible storage space, which can be divided how the user sees fit.
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
Image by anima ona and featured with permission
Like the structures themselves, the “drawers” are also made from offcuts. But this time, they’re the offcuts of the prior offcuts: pieces collected during the drilling process.
In height, all the pieces in the Teile series stand at around 36 to 53 centimeters (1.2 to 1.7 feet). They can be used as side tables, sculptural decoration, or even both at the same time.
[via Dezeen, images by anima ona and featured with permission]
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