Via the Couture Collection Antolini® presents 12 works of art. Designer Alessandro La Spada envisions a connection between Natural Stones and various other materials, matched through graphic signs and artistic decors.
Verona, Italy – November 18, 2024. When the world’s best natural stones, chosen from among the 1,300 variations part of the Antolini® collection, meet creativity, extraordinary projects arise. One of the most stunning is the Couture Collection: a project by designer Alessandro La Spada created to combine natural stone with other materials in an interplay of finishes and shapes capable of creating true works of art.
The 12 variants of the Couture Collection, each tailor-made and available in an almost endless array of options, are designed to enhance natural stones through their combination with metallic materials and original decorations, in a parallel journey between nature and art.
«When faced to natural stone, to this inexhaustible source of creative stimuli, there is a spontaneous, natural respect. It’s a material that constantly gives the opportunity to be inspired by it, because of its colors, textures and weaves. Interweaving is an intrinsic element in natural stone, a gentle spontaneous suggestion peculiar to the material: it is at the very moment a block is cut that an interweaving of elements formed over centuries is revealed. Almost a holistic concept, a Polaroid of a space-time interweaving», states designer Alessandro La Spada, author of the collection, while describing the beginning of the journey for Couture Collection.
The project, based on a wide option of natural stones, includes three distinct declinations in a decorative evolution that cruises from rationality to imagination: Geometric Mood, Organic Mood and Artistic Mood.
The first, Geometric Mood, connects natural stone with parallel or orthogonal lines made of metal and which divide the surface of the stone into different areas and textures.
Organic Mood enters a more sinuous realm, where the slabs accommodate curved lines that compose decorative patterns or, in some cases, enhance the natural veinings of the stone following them with golden finishes.
A floral pattern defines Ginko, the Couture Collection by Antolini® variant here part of an elegant bathroom. The artistic wall cladding is composed by Calcite Azul® “Extra” marble, Calcite Caraibica “Extra” marble, Bianco Pitaya granite, Quarzite Naica quartzite and light gold metal.
Artistic Mood is the most creative option: animal or wilderness-inspired figures become part of the stone, through a technical process that involves carving and engrafting of other materials.
Designer Alessandro La Spada, in further details, describes the collection’s variants: The Couture Collection is an example of creativity and expertise: natural weaves, which are spontaneously offered to us by Mother Nature, to which admixtures of different materials are added. Net Design, for example, is the graphic design best suited to represent this weave, a graphic canvas in which natural stone and metal meet each other. An example, on the other hand, of a more heterogeneous interweaving is Ginko, in which we find not only the union of different materials (metal and natural stone) but also of several different natural stones.
With the Couture Collection, natural stone is cut, processed and assembled to create unusual patterns, resulting in a bold and totally customizable collection. Each project is in fact unique: Antolini® can thus respond to even the most extravagant requests of designers and clients, for a tailor-made creation.
About Antolini
Innovation, variety, vision, and quality are four expressions defining, today, the identity of Antolini, an Italian company dedicated – since 68 years ago – to the production of natural stone slabs. The choice of words describing the company comes from its numbers: today Antolini offers more than 1300 different types of stones, divided into 14 collections producing 4,500 square meters of slabs a day, reaching one million a year.
Operative in 182 countries, Antolini has production centers in Brazil and India, as well as management centers and showrooms distributed throughout the world all reporting to the Italian headquarters.
Its history dates back a long way: founded in 1956 in Verona – in northeastern Italy – by Luigi Antolini, the company is now run by the new generations who carry on its historical values, maintaining the quality of Made in Italy with a spirit aimed at the constant search for technological progress and evolution in terms of design and production.
