The first item in the Lost Stones collection is a series of bistro tables called René, whose natural stone tops have been redeveloped from the remains of slabs that are of great historical value but are now broken and otherwise unusable.
The philosophy behind the collection is that of Kintsugi, which considers the destruction of an object simply as one of the various stages in its life cycle.
French Red, Alpine Green, Noir St Laurent, Sienna Yellow; the surface of each fragment is held together by a gilded 'seam', applying, for the first time in the natural stone sector, the technique of Kintsugi: a Japanese art of repairing shattered ceramics, which considers the destruction of an object simply as one of the various stages in its cycle.
Piero Lissoni debuts his Lost Stones collection, a new series of tables fabricated from heritage stone discovered in Salvatori’s archives. The tables employ the Japanese technique of kintsugi, a method of repairing shattered ceramics with delicate seams of gold: each table is a singularly unique object, its natural pattern, like a bolt of lightning, impossible to replicate. “The Lost Stones Collection gives new life to fragments of precious stone, joining them by following the randomness of its shatter”, explains Lissoni of the project. “The golden seams along the profiles of each cut transform the imperfect form into a perfect state.” Lissoni also expands his Home Collection: trays, vases and containers blend Salvatori’s natural stone with glass, wood and metal. The collection includes Salvatori’s first home fragrance, an intense scent with notes of cedar wood and Jasmine which evokes the citrus groves and sun-drenched shores of Sicily, home to Pietra d’Avola, its namesake limestone.
