Architect Sally Mackereth certainly isn’t the first established architect to try her hand at furniture design, but she’s made a strong foray into that world of medium-sized design objects—material innovation and all—with CAST001, her first series of furniture, which recently debuted at Tom Dixon’s MOST on the occasion of the Salone.
Mackereth has opted to forgo the easy stepping stone of the living room or kitchen and start with two matching articles of patio furniture, with future pieces to follow. CAST001 is an exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reconstructed stone that has been ‘infused’ with a small percentage of metal—bronze, silver or gold—which imparts a muted sheen to the highly tactile surfaces. The designer has called on “traditional molding and casting specialists Stevensons of Norwich” to cast the pieces with distinctive textures.
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