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Paolo Ulian and Bufalini presented an object study at Milan Design Week showing how the “Ingo“ lamp could be created from the waste pieces of the “Spacco“ shelf
Paolo Ulian, a designer from Carrara, has been intensely dedicated to reusing remnants from marble processing for some time. In his current collection, titled “Thinking in Marble,“ for Bufalini company, he also explored the generation of waste that will be repurposed into new products: First, a bookshelf is made entirely of marble, and then the offcuts are transformed into lamps.
To understand this, one must recall Paolo Ulian’s “Pixel“ collection from 2015: Here, he sawed the exteriors of vases and sinks into vertical and horizontal lines and then chipped away the resulting cubes.
The result is a completely individual work of art that consumers can also design for themselves.
For “Spacco,“ the name of the new bookshelf, Paolo Ulian once again works with saw and hammer, only this time the cuts are deeper and no longer follow the pixel grid. First, the slices in the stone are chipped off, as they are needed for the bookshelf. The shelf, once again completely individual, is finished.
The (waste) discs are now transformed into the lighting object “Ingo.“The light source hangs in the center of the discs, and its brightness and shadows are transferred to the panels.
The object is, in a sense, an idea that has been put into practice – in the lamp shown, the discs do not come from the shelf shown.
We are presenting four additional objects that were newly created in the collaboration between Bufalini and Paolo Ulian.
Photos: Bufalini / Paolo Ulian
