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Project —
Gemstone
Architects:
Francesco Morena
Francesco Morena, Architect, the owner of Morena
Architects Studio. He undertakes extensive,
international, professional activities in the fields of:
architectural planning, design, restoration and
urban planning. He holds the Academic title
«Cultore della materia», as expert in Architectural
Planning at the University of Venice, Italy. He has
won numerous prizes and has published his work
extensively in Italy and abroad.
The Gemstone collection for corporate offices,
featuring the desk as the first product, aims to
explore the complex relationship between nature
and design. The chosen forms are modified in space,
and transform from a base that is similar to a rock
of variegated surface, to a sanded table that is
generated from clean and precise cuts, almost
creating a metaphor of the natural origins of the
objects that surround us.
The table, the desks, seem to rise up from the
ground, expressing the notion and hope for the way
in which we can transform nature into something
beautiful and useful while remaining in harmony
with it.
Francesco Morena
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Project —
Gemstone
Architects:
Francesco Morena
The Gemstone collection for corporate offices