Spacco

This piece begins with an elemental process: deep, parallel cuts into a square marble column, forming the foundational structure of this unconventional bookcase. To achieve its ideal form—ever-changing and unique—manual intervention is required by spacing and dimensioning the shelves, discarding non-essential spans and retaining those that serve the design. Breaking certain shelves leaves a cleft-like fracture mark along the bookcase’s vertical surface, imprinting it with raw, organic character. Meanwhile, the square marble fragments removed during this subtractive process can be repurposed to craft new symbiotic objects. This is exemplified by the “Ingo” pendant lamp, itself entirely constructed from the bookcase’s discarded shelves and marble offcuts.