Stone-Ideas.com 
Time is the big theme of the Italian design studio Alcarol – not time as that strange thing whose passing is indicated by a clock, for example, but which is not in the clock, and also not time as that feeling that we humans have in our heads, and which passes faster or slower depending on the situation. Eleonora Dal Farra and Andrea Forti, who founded Alcarol in 2012, find time in certain materials or in leftovers from processing.
In doing so, they combine wood that is thousands of years old or stones that were even created millions of years ago with synthetic resin, which in turn is one of the new materials of our present day.
We have already presented their “Dolomyth” collection, where they cut cubes out of dolomite rock, poured resin on them, and turned the cube into a stool with wheels.
They have now launched the “Marble Ways” collection: the tables are made of thick boards on which natural stone slabs or raw blocks are laid and cut into strips.
As always with such work, the saw cuts a little deeper than the stone is thick, and in doing so it draws thin, straight lines through the wood.
When the water has finally drained away, but the remains of stone sawdust are still stuck in the furrows, Alcarol switches on and freezes the moment by pouring crystal-clear resin over the surface.
These cutting boards are usually thrown away as waste – at Alcarol they are “freezing time at the end of the material’s life cycle, thereby giving it a new life,” as the designers put it.
The “Stone Leg Edition” adds another level to Marble Ways: the legs for the tables are not made of metal, but also made of stone.
Fotos: Alcarol
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