Stone Tables and Furniture Accessories: Italian hand-crafted products

Today I want to speak with you about Italian tables and furniture accessories made of stone by LDM Italia.

LDM Italia is the acronym for Laboratorio del Marmo : a Venetian hand-crafted workshop, that has made furnishing accessoires and designer pieces in Vicenza Stone since 1973.

Artists, architects and famous designers of LDM have been asked to interpret a new way of using stone materials in contemporary house interiors, distancing from the tradional role of decoration and becoming a real protagonist of modern and design furniture.

Vicenza Stone is a sedimentary rock. It is characterized by the presence of fossils, which enhance its materiality and make the works of art more precious .The rock is mined from the Berici hills,in Veneto.

This type of rock offers both excellent structural qualities and, at the same time, a very expressive design.This is also the example of the wonderful Venetian villas, designed by the architect Andrea Palladio in the 16th century.

The sculptures, inspired by classical principles, are hand-carved in workshops according to traditional techniques and for this reason each sculpture is a unique piece, offering the additional value without being mass-produced.

Taking a clay model as reference, after roughing out, the object is finally sculptured in every detail. Finishing consists in rasping the surface that the chisel cut roughly

Stone tables by LDM Italia differ from other modern elements for essential and simple shapes, for elegant and refined lines.

Have a look for example at Samurai glass and stone table, with an hand-made stone sculpture as base, that supports a rectangular glass table. The stone sculpture made of White Vicenza stone reminds in shape paper-folding and the typical Japanes art.

Alex Wood table is characterized by a Vicenza stone base, while the top is in wood, available in several essence, like walnut, cherry-wood or wengè. This design table stands out for the original matching of stone with wood.

For those who love round tops to place in the middle of a living room, I suggest Arcipelago round stone table. Its main feature is the light, that passes through the engraved wave.

And why not daring with a stone bookcase? The right choice is QB stackable stone bookcase, composed by stone modules to combine in endless compositions according to your needs.