Situcraft is working in tandem with Selux towards transforming the way we view outdoor spaces by integrating durable, sustainable materials and highly efficient lighting.
The VAZ collection includes assortments of sizes, security levels, and materials - marble, glazed porcelain, wood, and painted aluminum – to offer designers a broader palette of options to curate beautiful and secure connections of lighting and exterior placemaking with nature.
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WAVER Desk + Benches
Designed by Craig Copeland and fabricated by Eurobuiding, using Sibillino Bianco travertine, the “WAVER Desk” and “WAVER Benches” undulate to create playful and inviting forms at the entrance of the 2023 Marmomac Pavilion One – named “A Matter of Stone.” Manufacturing included diamond-wire and waterjet cutting of the tops and legs, respectively. The leg shapes combined efficient cutting with resilient structure, employing “banana” cutting arrays. Inside and outside curves are cut in single passes, reducing fabrication time, and achieving higher material yields. By aggregating the efficient modular system of flat slabs and arcing legs, the WAVER Desk + Benches showcase the power of collaborative design that considers fabrication and installation optimizations, featuring the natural beauty of stone.
The ECCO Stone Collection is a luxury furniture line designed by Craig Copeland for AKDO and consists of nine collectible pieces, each of which boast a sleek stainless steel frame with beveled edges and ultra-thin AKDOLAM “Twin” stone technology
The name ECCO means “here now” in Latin, referencing the very ‘au courant’ design of the products, while also eluding to their eco-friendly design and easy-to-assemble elements.
A primary piece in the ECCO Stone Collection is the two-tiered Cappuccino table which offers a completely individual take on the classic coffee table. Not only do the tiers provide discreet locations for the placement of sometimes-unsightly personal belongings, they also result in a layered, dynamic look that brings an enriched sense of variation to design. With its softly curving marble top and beveled framing, the Cappuccino incorporates the distinguishing details of the ECCO Stone Collection, proving an essential furnishing in both commercial lounge and residential living applications.
The Bench is a featured piece steeped in versatility; it can be used in an array of luxuriously-outfitted spaces including hotels, restaurants, offices and residential interiors. With one single tier, the Bench’s profile is streamlined, allowing the top to be reversed with ease as preference and design moods alter. Whether used as seating, or as a slim coffee table in areas where space is limited, the Bench suggests sophistication by showcasing the aesthetic appeal of natural stone.
The Shelf builds from the Bench and combines three distinct levels of striking AKDOLAM Twin marble and a linear stainless steel frame to create a modern marvel in furniture. The elongated pieces of Calacatta and Dark Olive marble provide ample surface area upon which to display keepsake items in both residential and commercial spaces, alike. Reverse just one piece of stone, or reverse them all for a bespoke result that pairs seamlessly with any decor.
The Pendant is an eye-catching interpretation on the ever-popular and essential up/down/glow light fixture. The translucent shade is crafted from AKDOLAM Twin marble and is suspended from two bronzed stainless steel posts and sleek ceiling cover, resulting in an authentic element of luxury wherever it’s featured.
Each of the ECCO Collection’s nine collectible pieces are etched with the designer’s signature, AKDO’s logo, unique numerical identifier and associated letter of authenticity. Use the furnishings on their own for a subtle statement, or collect them all to create an elevated residential setting or workplace.
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After speaking at the American Institute of Architect’s “Designing with Stone” in 2008, Craig Copeland was invited by the Italian stone company Henraux to collaborate on the design of an exhibition pavilion with Turan Duda (a close friend, and former colleague at Cesar Pelli & Associates) for Marmomacc Meets Design (MMD) in Verona, Italy.
Henraux was invited to participate in MMD because of the advancements it was continuing to make in stone technologies and in the stone arts – building upon its historically significant fabrications of marble architecture and monumental sculptures, including those for Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and more recently Tony Cragg.
The MMD exhibition theme was “Hybrid + Flexible.” The goal of the design was to demonstrate new ways of approaching and understanding stone’s potential within the contemporary industrial toolbox, and to inspire future experiments to address the question, “How can mass production, made possible by technology, be utilized with hybrid materials and systems, to create infinitely unique forms and architectonic relationships?”
In addition to designing the overall pavilion armature and the various panel configurations, Copeland designed all of the marble furniture shown, an experience that would be foundational in the eventual creation of Situcraft.
Following a two year showing of Henraux's "Flexible Hybrid" at Marmomacc, Craig Copeland was invited to design an exhibition for Travertini Paradiso, "This Way, That Way."
“This Way, That Way” emerged as a play between the three-dimensional book-matching of varying travertines arranged into bold geometric slab and block forms to suggest movement, swayings back and forth. Copeland included two of his hand carved travertine sculptures, a bird and turtle, representing his daughter and son who often stretch him and his wife, this way/that way.
The intent of the collective grouping of panels, furniture and carvings was to highlight the rich and broad travertine collections of Travertini Paradiso’s quarries, while also creating an inviting place to rest upon travertine blocks themselves…to pause and contemplate the potential of the materials as well as the company’s fabrication offerings…before continuing on through Marmomacc, this way or that way.
Following the 2009 Marmomacc Meets Design (MMD) entry, "Flexible Hybrid," Craig Copeland designed a new exhibition for Henraux at the same International Stone Fair, Marmomacc, in Verona, Italy. Titled "Stone Basket Weave," the design won the premier “Best Communicator” Award for the 2011 Marmomacc Stone Fair.
"Stone Basket Weave" featured repetitive geometric-biomorphic patterns in low-relief panels of statuary white Altissimo marble. In the spirit of Jean Arp and Isamu Noguchi - artists who both once collaborated with Henraux - "Stone Basket Weave" intertwined figurative and geometric forms to celebrate the timeless enjoyment of designs with natural stone. In addition to the overall exhibit design that included over 20 different marbles and granites "Penelope," hand-carved by Copeland the preceding year, was the table-top figure echoing the Stone Basket Weave forms with Cerviole marble in full volume.
While stone is inorganic, much of its intrinsic beauty arrives from the seemingly organic, structured movements of the earth’s minerals, captured and revealed in richly varying coloration and veining. The HX-DNA forms developed in this design build upon conceptual plays of the hidden forms and primary building blocks of our physical world: DNA. The 2012 Marmomacc pavilion collaboration with Henraux, “HX: The DNA of Stone,” was inspired by the organic metaphor of biological structure - namely DNA.
The signature structure of DNA, the double helix, inspired the variety of free-standing structures and low-relief panels featured in the HX–DNA forms. Joining 3-D iterations of Henraux’s trademark H and X vertically, undulating stone strands ascend into rich, figurative forms suggestive of DNA spirals.
Caldia Curve, conceived in the spring of 2014 by Copeland, and continued into 2016 in collaboration with Marmi e Graniti D’Italia (MGI), includes an expanding series of formal examinations in stone panel shaping. From geometric plays in relief and perforation, Caldia Curve seeks ways to combine contemporary computer model based designs with the latest technologies in stone fabrication.
What would happen if a cube of stone were a seed...and germinated for a couple of weeks into a sprout?...Beeker embodies the possible animation of this concept. Named after our dear and late parakeet, Beeker embodies the spirit of a creature resting before, or after flight, joining us in a moment of pause and appreciation of life as a continuum.
Following both the first Marmomacc design for Travertini Paradiso titled “This Way, That Way” in 2011, and the next year's variation “In, Out, All About,” Copeland further modified the base design for a final installment of the series, titled "In, Out, All About", incorporating his "Dei Waves", also designed in 2013.
“Embrace”s collective figurative form suggests many visual metaphors … walls encircling a public plaza, a shake of two hands, an opening and closing tulip… metaphors of invitation, metaphors of embrace. It was designed and fabricated for "Soul of City", curated by Luca Molinari in collaboration with Platform Magazine and Marmomacc 2017. “Embrace” was designed by Craig Copeland; supplied and fabricated by Lavagnoli Marmi - Marble Fabricator; Ca’ D’ORO – Marble Supplier; Steel Group - Steel Fabricator
The concept for “Embrace” is a soothing gathering place encompassed in marble. At the same time, the intent was to express more contemporary ways to shape and lighten the marble defining the place.
The primary components of “Embrace” are two convex, concave curving walls of marble – one in Carrara White, the other with Picasso Green. Together they define what is both a passage and seating area. Each wall is composed of 40, thin hyperbolic panels supported by a steel frame with a corten finish. A series of modular marble chairs echo the inner geometry of frames and walls. The entire structure sits on a pavement of reflective, polished absolute black.
From hand sketches, 3D computer drawings, diamond wire cutting, finally hand finishing and assembling, the complete process of design to fabrication and installation demonstrates both traditional and the most contemporary technologies.
When we embrace…in everyday, in our extreme moments of joy, of despair…we reaffirm and are comforted by our connection to the continuum of family, friends, lovers, and strangers…humanity. The soul of any city lies in all the places where we congregate…to fulfill our social nature…to embrace.
Marrow is a collection of lighting surfaces and fixtures that have evolved out of Caldia Curve. Geometric transformations, guided by a search for figuration, have led to the cyclical series that when translucent glow like bones in an X-ray
