MIRANDOLA.
The new Earthquake 5.9 collection is a tribute to the Emilia earthquake of May 2012 that affected many businesses in the area, including Budri. It’s a collection of furnishing items and coverings in marble and onyx, created using hundreds of fragments of ‘quake-struck’ slabs, to create something beautiful, to inject life back into something that had been totally destroyed in the space of a few seconds.
Patricia Urquiola chooses wood for the structure of the stand in last edition of Salone Milan 2013, a warm and welcoming material, resistant and anti-seismic, as if to safeguard the company and its rich array of stones through a strong and protective shelter. Inside the stand, the Earthquake 5.9 project continues in a secret room where fragments of marble ‘rescued’ from the slabs damaged by the earthquake cover an entire wall that Patricia transforms into an exclusive artistic inlay with her creative generosity.
Photos: Budri.
