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Marbled salts table

Creator: Roxane Lahidji
Offered by: 88 Gallery London

Description
In salt and tree resin
Dimensions: height: 72 cm diametre of surface: 42 cm
Belgium, contemporary

Roxane Lahidji describes her development and use of salt and tree resin as follows: 'In ancient times salt was rare and costly. Yet, since the industrial revolution it has become so cheap and easily available that we longer recognise its value. With ‘Marbled Salts’, Roxane Lahidji explores new possibilities, reinventing salt as a sustainable design material. She makes use of its unique physical properties as a self-binding composite to create a set of tables and stools. By mixing it with tree resin, she gives it shape and strength. Coal powder and natural colour variations in salt mimic the aesthetics of expensive natural stone such as marble. Herein she draws a contradictory parallel between the flexible versatility of salt and the material language of heavy and solid rock. The design also aims to invite a discussion on the concept of value – essentially a social construct ? and the costs the finished product implies.'

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Belgium
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	In salt and tree resin
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Incollect Reference #:	564295

Dimensions

H.	28.35 in;	Diam.	16.54 in;
H.	72 cm;	Diam.	42 cm;

Message from Seller:

88 Gallery London focuses on work by Italian, French, Belgian and American designers, from post war to contemporary. We actively search the market for original pieces by Gio Ponti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Franco Albini, Max Ingrand and many more, while also collaborating with a number of contemporary designers.