The “road of merchants”, Carpets of Stone is a sequence of textures, imaginary stone carpets from ancient Middle Eastern towns.

A flowing parterre becomes a wide Triclinium. Narcissus’s mirror is a perfect moment for ablutions, refractions and reflections. This installation features a minimally designed parterre, coinciding with a rhythmic sequence of thin strips of Zebra Grey stone. The interval between these strips is bridged by fine black quartz grits, similar to lava sand. The expansion of materials and objects aims to represent the slow flow of things.

Vincenzo Latina is a Professor at S.D.S. School of Architecture in Siracusa. He won important awards, including “The Prince and the Architect”; the “International Award for Architecture in Stone 2003”; the Dedalo Minosse International Prize, 2004; the Gubbio Award, 2006; the “Urban Quality and Innovation Award”, 2008; the G.B. Vaccarini Award; the “Gold Medal for Italian Architecture 2012”. Triennale di Milano; the International Prize ARCH&STONE’13 – Botticino 2013.

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Curated by Raffaello Galiotto, Vincenzo Pavan

Just as woven rugs were laid on the ground along the streets and markets of ancient cities in the Middle East at regular intervals to be washed and cleaned by the feet of passers-by, so the stone pavings collected in the theme exhibition in The Italian Stone Theatre at Marmomac will be laid along a walk-over route leading into a solid stone space rich in textures, design and colours that only natural stone can achieve. The exhibition looks like a collage of stone carpets along a course crossing the hall longitudinally, separating the various shows and obliging visitors to walk over a stone patchwork. Each piece differs from all the others as the outcome of a personal project conceived by international designers invited to collaborate with Italian companies in this sector. Design creativity and the precision and quality of execution by these companies highlight the infinite possibilities for interpretation, texture and colours offered by stone materials.