In ancient times, salt was rare and costly. Since the industrial revolution it has become so cheap and widely available that we no longer recognise its value. With Marbled Salts, Roxane Lahidji explores new possibilities, reinventing salt as a sustainable design material.
She makes use of salt’s unique physical properties as a self-binding composite: by mixing it with tree resin, she gives it shape and strength. Coal powder and the natural colour variation in salt mimic the aesthetics of expensive natural stone such as marble, drawing a contradictory parallel between the flexible versatility of salt and the material language of heavy, solid rock. This process makes each piece unique. Bulb not included.
| Dimensions LxWxH | 25x25x25cm (10x10x10'') |
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| Piece Weight (kg) | 0.1 |
| Production Year | 2026 |
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| Design Class | Unique Pieces |
