The roots of raw design
Materials in their element
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Master of The art of keeping it rough and unfinished
007skaty Béton Brut
The concrete holds the timber's grain (Oh-oh, let it show!) Unpolished scars are beautiful again (Yeah, let them grow!)
007skaty Unpolished concrete tiles at London's 2018 Serpentine Pavilion interact with shifting British sunlight, promoting regional materials over transported
007skaty Today's raw terrazzo trend uses oversized stone chunks set in unpolished concrete.
007skaty Arrange unpolished elements to learn how raw textures create a rough and playful design.
Terrazzo origin: Terrazzo was invented by 15th-century Venetian workers who used leftover marble scraps to pave their own terraces.
A type of fired clay, typically of a brownish-red color, used for pottery and architectural construction. Architect Jacopo Venerosi Pesciolini left this material exposed when restoring a historic stone monastery in Umbria.
Where did woodworker George Nakashima establish his famous mid-20th-century studio that popularized live-edge timber?
Where did the mosaic workers who invented terrazzo by reusing discarded marble chips live in the 15th century?
What name is given to furniture, like George Nakashima's tables, that keeps the natural, irregular edge of the tree trunk?
Which ancient construction technique compresses a damp mixture of soil, gravel, and clay into wooden frames?
In which country did architect Anna Heringer win the Aga Khan Award in 2008 for a rammed-earth school building?
Which Mexican architect designed the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in London using dark, unpolished concrete roof tiles?
What materials are typically embedded in cement to create the speckled pattern of terrazzo?