A seat in Carrara white marble, its horn-like shape helping it become a kind of huge, passive amplifier assisted by the special hardness of marble at the opening of the trumpet a SmartPhone can be inserted here to amplify music through the large trumpet.

Panca Play was the winner of the “Icon Award” 2016 and thereby became the new image for the Marmomac 2017 communication campaign.

Denis Santachiara was born in 1950 in Campagnola and began his career in the early seventies, attracted by the poetic-linguistic potential of new technologies and aesthetic processes linked to different industrial environments. His work, on the border between art and design, has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, at the Musèe des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, at the National Museum of Art in Tokyo and at the Mlan Triennale.
His projects are now present in different parts of the world, achieving several international awards. In Italy, Denis Santachiara has collaborated and still collaborates with important national and international brands, constantly looking for new ideas and projects to develop.

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Curated by Raffaello Galiotto and Vincenzo Pavan

The availability on the market of new design and processing technologies has highlighted extraordinary opportunities for turning stone materials into complex artefacts in technical and formal terms. In particular, their compatibility with very sophisticated design became immediately apparent with the potential for manufacturing artefacts with machines alone (and consequently automated mass production) that until now were produced using craftsman methods. Industrial replication is one of the basic factors behind the success of products by top Italian designers and their commercial viability. The implementation of new generation digital systems means that even stone material processing can benefit from technical aspects (precision, work speed, reduced waste, etc.) that are critical for mass production of formally complex objects and the attainment of performance levels comparable to those for other lighter materials.
The New Marble Generation exhibition aims to develop prototype of high quality design products intended for mass production. Collaboration between internationally renowned designers and architects and companies in the stone industry keen to find new research approaches has achieved an innovative experimental experience with materials demonstrating their technical and processing skills.
The resulting artefacts are on show together in a special set-up inside The Italian Stone Theatre and focus on interior and exterior furniture components alike, as well as mass produced architectural design items. The designers have worked across several theme-based sections, adapting the stone materials chosen by the curators to these purposes.