A VISION OF MARBLE THAT BRINGS US CLOSER TO DESIGN

Joaquín Moll designs sculptural pieces in marble with a high aesthetic value.

Beyond the surface for Meddel is the marble design and its dynamics, which move the concept of natural stone.

After years of experience in the high decoration sector, after visits to fairs and shows, after much research on the competition, trends, novelties, I have discovered the reason for finding only loose pieces, of raw interest, surfaces and hollow cast stone, and it is the difficulty of working the stone and getting a fine finish. Or what is the same, the terrible ease in getting a rough result in only 2 centimeters of margin. That is why going beyond the surface in marble design is one of Meddel's driving principles.

The stone has hard qualities, difficult to work. It is a material with an extensive sculptural leave, and usually worked in rough. So that it starts from a solid piece, and from this is molded what ends up being a sculpture, a solid form with curves defined based on the thickness of the material.

The same happens if you leave art and venture into the specific sector of decoration, more specifically furniture design. Industrial techniques that start from a block, and end up cutting shapes, which even with a subtle and embellished appearance, do not cease to be composed of a solid as the main base.

And, on the other hand, the surface. The classic table has always been understood as a polished surface. A table cold to the touch, which inevitably transports us to family tables, to a breakfast prepared with love and enjoyed with grandparents, a childhood memory that inevitably transports our senses to a summer farm, to a day among fruit trees, to an evening of dinner and conversation.

By counter-trend, design must go further. By essence, design must seek and search, not limit the material to a rough or a mere surface.

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