Designer-maker Robin Grasby, who originally trained as a joiner and cabinetmaker, won a Wallpaper* Design Award in 2011 and has been on our radar ever since. Following the launch of his own surface company Altrock last year, we knew we had to get him on board for this year\u2019s Handmade...
Altrock sees Grasby give new life to discarded materials, creating work surfaces and tables from pieces of natural stone set within a resin mix made up of recycled marble chips, recycled marble powder and colour pigments. Having mostly worked on bespoke, he had the urge to take the process in a different direction.
‘It turned out that Afrodit came from a corner of a grey and white marble quarry that had been infiltrated by an unusual mineral deposit,’ he says. ‘Over the millions of years of heat and pressure, this deposit has manifested as streaks of stunning bright pinks throughout the grey rock.’ Wallpaper* stepped in to do the matchmaking, and the team at Temmer were as keen on Grasby as he was on them. Before long, Temmer had sent a crateful of its Afrodit marble offcuts to Grasby, who set about devising a palette that would complement their rosy hue.Form-wise, he kept things simple – he would make a set of side tables inspired by the fluted stone columns of classical architecture. ‘The pieces almost designed themselves,’ he says.
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