Client / Lithea
Year / 2023
Greche is a Travertine marble panel with Pietra Pece applications, consisting in a modular design with overlapping bands, greatly inspired by the Geometric Style of ceramics developed in the 8th century BC in Attica and Magna Graecia. This Style was characterized by a dense pictorial decoration in black paint that covered each vase like a meticulous embroidery. This theme was then applied in all fields of ornamentation, from fabrics to architecture, expressing the taste for rational composition, perfect symmetry, rhythmic order and the search for harmony based on simple geometric forms to which the Classics aspired.
The elements used in the decoration of the Greche panel are cylindrical in shape and are reminiscent of the gutte (guttae in Latin) or drops: the ornamental motif that hangs below the mutulae of the cornice and the regulae of the frieze found on the trabeations of the Doric order. The ornaments of classical Greek architecture correspond to elements that were functional in the wooden and terracotta architecture of the Archaic period. The mutulae and regulae symbolically represent the piece of wood through which the ‘cavicchi’ (i.e. wooden nails or pins) were threaded to fix the rafters, following the inclination of the roof. The drop is thus metaphorically a reproduction in stone of such ‘cavicchi’ used when the trabeation was made of wood.’
The design of the Greche panel is a reinterpretation that brings the decorative series of the same name back into the contemporary world. These, in fact, united by a modular matrix, become a collection of designs that can be extended infinitely, a frame of sorts with patterns that can change as required. The design consists in two layers of different stones emphasising the pattern through CNC machining.
Credits and technical information
Concept and Design / Martinelli Venezia
Materials / Travertine and Pietra Pece
Dimensions / single tiles 20x20 cm
Photo / Nino Bartuccio