Dedalo is a Carrara-based company that designs and manufactures monolithic luxury furniture objects in lightened marble with a contemporary design. It aims to reaffirm the use of marble in everyday living without giving up, for weight reasons, its three-dimensional vocation, proposing sculptural and extremely engaging forms.
The bathroom has become, from a modern perspective, a room in which people spend much more time than in the past and is no longer just a transitory room used exclusively out of necessity. Planners, architects and designers devote a lot of space to it, trying to make it attractive, modern and stylish. One component that is definitely among the main architects of aesthetics is undoubtedly the washbasin, which can focus many gazes and determine the line of furniture. Choosing a washbasin means taking into consideration several variables, starting with the structural ones concerning the positioning of the connections and drains. Beyond this evaluation, which must still be physiological and often binding, what must be considered for the purpose of wisely choosing a sink are functionality, space and form.
In collaboration with the MGI Group, the company makes marble washbasin with a modern and clean design, which was created with the dual intent of being functional, complying with the main international plumbing regulations, and beautiful, while contributing to contemporary and exclusive environments. Its lightness allows it to be installed on any support, be it a suspended cabinet or a cantilevered glass, or directly on the wall as a shelf. In this way, marble is the protagonist of contemporary spaces, dialoguing with every style and need.
July 29, 2018 - Antigone is staged at the Lazzareschi quarry, carved into a marble statue provided by MGI Group. Students from Massa's Rossi High School of Classics bring Sophocles' Greek tragedy to the so-called "Roman quarry" in the square opened for theater by marble entrepreneur Alvise Lazzareschi. The youngsters, protagonists of the staging also garnered critical acclaim. In the beautiful scenery of the quarries were present about 600 people, who in an evocative silence listened to the play, enraptured by the acting and set design, which also featured a large mechanical means useful for simulating the closing of the cave/tomb in which Creon had locked up the young heroine.
The script of the drama, appropriately adapted by Prof. Gennaro Di Leo, a professor of literature, theater director and writer, is set to music by Massese composer and sound designer Giuseppe Joh Capozzolo, already the author of the soundtracks of major international film productions. Costumes are handmade and tailored by Claudia Paula Luccini and Micol Baldini, assisted by Sonia Soffredini, Caterina Bertilorenzi and Emma Bigarani.
For the occasion, the artist from Carrara, Francesco Siani, created a monumental sculpture with white Carrara marble almost five meters high - made and installed by the MGI Group - depicting the protagonist Antigone, walled up alive in a quarry and then marbled. The story re-proposes a modern-day reflection on the defense of human freedom, autonomy of judgment, and the inalienability of rights.
Antigone conquers quarries Enthusiasm in Fossacava
Rossi High School students bring Antigone to the quarry.
Six hundred for Antigone staged at marble quarries
Antigone, tragedy staged in the heart of the Apuan basins
Theatrical performance "Antigone" in Quarry
MGI's focus on sports competition brings the Group closer to Formula 2000. Since the Italian GP in 2017 / 2018, the MGI logo began to stand out on the livery of the single-seaters, becoming their Title Sponsor. A partnership that combines sports, culture, events: MGI is the premium partner for anyone who inspires others with their personality, creativity and performance.
Stone Helix is a tribute to Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of architecture) and internationally known for her theoretical and academic work.
Each of his dynamic and innovative projects is based on thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the fields of urban planning, architecture to design. Enveloping curves, lines that are lost in the horizon, organic, fluid and bold forms-these are the key words that define his projects.
In her honor, the "Lady of Curves," MGI Group has created a statue in a high-quality Italian marble, Botticino Classico®, on display at the Zaha Hadid Architects exhibition in London, created in collaboration with T&D Robotics, a design group of excellence for the robotics sector, with a cutting-edge technology profile in natural stone processing.
The result is an extremely elegant and refined project, characterized by a powerful curved shape that unravels into an elongated structure. Botticino Classico® marble is a stone suitable for all types of ornamentation, carving statues included, and is highly sought after for classical projects, as evidenced by the many historic monuments created with this material.
Sept. 23, 2016 - Möbius Chair & Sofa is a marble seat designed byArch. Giuseppe Fallacara - PhD. Full Professor of Architectural Design DICAR, Polytechnic University of Bari - and produced by the Swiss company Generelli, an expert in working natural stone, integrating the most traditional craftsmanship with the most modern processing through state-of-the-art computerized machines.
Möbius Chair and Sofa, presented at Marmomac 2016, is made of fiber-reinforced Perlato Sicilia Cofano® marble-supplied by MGI Group. The idea came about as a result of the New Marble Generation project, which aims to create new design projects in the form of prototypes, which thanks to extraordinary design and processing technologies can be replicated on a large scale. The uniqueness of the project lies in the extraordinary feeling it conveys: in fact, the soft shapes give the idea that marble is shaped in a natural way; in reality, the object is carved from a block of pure stone. The rather reduced thickness requires the application of a layer of carbon fiber that reinforces the structure, making it solid.
Möbius Sofa wins the Golden Design Award in 2016-2017 in the category of Furniture, Decorative Objects and Household Items.
The following year Möbius Chair & Sofa also takes center stage in the city. With Marmomac & the City format, the event crosses borders to expand to Verona and involve, citizens and numerous tourists visiting the Scaliger capital. The formula includes the exhibition of 12 works already presented in past editions of Marmomac within The Italian Stone Theatre pavilion. In this way, additional visibility is given to creations resulting from the collaboration between important designers and industry companies that are presented to a non-industry audience as art or design artifacts. In this context Möbius Chair & Sofa makes a fine display, MGI Group reconfirms its focus on promoting the encounter between the world of technological research and the business world.
Marmomac in the city
Sept. 30, 2015 - On the occasion of the 50th edition of Marmomac, MGI Group presents the work Lithic Dragonfly, byarch. Giuseppe Fallacara - PhD. Full Professor of Architectural Design DICAR, Politecnico di Bari - as part of the exhibition Lithic Vertigo, focused on experimentation and creativity on the use of stone.
The act of climbing, in architecture as in urban spaces, has always been an intriguing challenge for architects, sometimes a test of skill to demonstrate the technical and creative abilities of the designer.
Both in the past and in contemporary times, stone, more than other materials, has proved particularly suitable for experiments on this theme. Indeed, with lithic materials, the most ingenious staircases rich in plastic expressiveness have been made , from Baroque to Art Nouveau, from classical to modern.
"To think of a work that stays balanced in one spot can make one dizzy," says Giuseppe Fallacara. The work Lithic Dragonfly is inspired by a typical object in Vietnamese culture, the balancing dragonfly made of lucky bamboo cane. It looks like a defiance of the laws of gravity this dragonfly, skillfully balanced so as to remain in balance just resting on a corner. Vertigo (from lat. vertigo - "to turn, to turn"; more precisely blurring of the "cèrebro" whereby it seems that everything is moving around and the lumen of the eyes is missing in an instant) is the sensation that may be felt by those who observe a tightrope walker, who, with his bamboo "wings" of his pole, controls the center of gravity so that it is aligned with the rope and allows him to keep himself balanced.
The experimental design of the Lithic Dragonfly structure, made of Carrara marble slabs supplied by MGI Group, sees the huge parts of the dragonfly transformed into pre-stressed reinforced stone beams, and the roof is formed by sheets, generating a tensile structure. This condition could open a new avenue based on the creation of architectural works derived from the observation of nature and the balance of tightrope walkers.
Lithic Vertigo is part of the project "The Italian Stone Theater," implemented by Marmomac with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), ICE-Italian Trade Agency and Confindustria Marmomacchine as part of the MadeinItaly Extraordinary Promotion Plan for the enhancement of excellence in the national stone and technology sector.
Material Design | Lithic Vertigo
Stone Architecture | Lithic Vertigo
Sept. 24, 2014 - Craig Copeland is an architect and sculptor, an associate partner in the New York firm Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Openings and figurative space as well as implied natural energies are central to his sculpture and drawings. Gesture and movement characterize all his designs. Living spirits are suggested in profiles, in twists and turns, for a sculpture that wants to be alive, transcending the static object, engaging the consciousness of life and place.
Caldia Curve I builds on a series of formal examinations in the modeling of stone panels. From embossed and perforated geometric plays, using Caldia® marble, the MGI Group integrates these undulating panels into its booth at Marmomac 2014 with the intention of transforming it into a design laboratory to examine and present increasingly sophisticated forms and processing of Caldia Curve variants. Features of the booth include custom-designed tables and chairs, curved screen walls housing Caldia Cur ve panels, and an interpretation of the Caldia Cube called "Beeker" carved by Copeland.
In 2015 Copeland continued to develop a series of virtual and physical prototypes of a second generation: Caldia Curve II. The goal is to build on the sinuous panels of the first generation designs; transforming flat graphic panels into triangular volumetric columns. With the specific intent to expand the potential of paneling through more robust lateral stability, increasing span capabilities in combination with greater sculptural expression.
Caldia Curve enshrines the collaboration between MGI Group and Craig Copeland and involves a series of experiments on stone modeling, combining contemporary design based on computer models with the latest stone processing technologies. The partnership leads to robotic milling of Caldia Curve II, thanks to the technology parter T&D Robotics is a company that aspires to bring automation to every factory or art studio.
Sept. 24, 2014 - The theme of the interaction between steel and stone seals a winning pairing that also allows stone to become light, as if it were about to take flight.
This is the case with the sculpture Parabolithic - Vela, a research and collaborative project between the DICAR Department of Bari Polytechnic University, led byArch. Giuseppe Fallacara, and two leading companies in the stone industry: MGI Group and T&D Robotics. The sculpture is part of a series of completely innovative experiments that researchers and architects such as Brandon Clifford (MIT), Jelle Feringa (TU Delft) and Giuseppe Fallacara developed simultaneously in different locations due to their affinities. In particular, the prototypes investigated the enormous opportunities offered by robotic diamond wire cutting machines, which can deliver complex geometries (double-curved surfaces) to the stone block by performing the cut directly in three-dimensional space.
"Vela" builds on the collaboration between Feringa, a passionate young Dutch researcher, and T&D Robotics, an innovative Carrara company, which investigated this technology by cutting complex surfaces governed by double curvature on blocks of Carrara marble.
The parabolic, as the name suggests, is essentially a hyperbolic lithic paraboid and is designed in two variants: a more massive one (Raystone) consisting of perforated lithic blocks compressed by steel cables that are placed at the points of contact between one block and the other, and another variant (Vela), shaped from triangles of white Carrara marble and then attached to a network of steel cables with the task of discretizing the surface of the paraboid itself.
Sept. 24, 2014 - On the occasion of Marmomac 2014, the award ceremony of the Modigliani Fountain Competition will be held at the Santamargherita Forum. This is a project created from scratch in 2013, in collaboration with the Amedeo Modigliani Livorno Committee and the Montecatini Terme Cultural Association, with the aim of celebrating the memory of the famous Italian artist and reviving a historic place in the city of Livorno, the Rotonda d'Ardenza. The competition involved the creation of a fountain inspired by Modigliani's works and ideologies, following precise guidelines, and participation was open to Marmomac Stone Academy alumni. The winner was New York architect Earl G. Jackson.
The fountain will be made of white Carrara marble offered by the MGI Group; processing will be entrusted to automation technologies employed by T&D Robotics, a leading company in this field.
Collections of haute couture dresses star in a photo shoot set at the Carrara marble quarries and sculptor Nicolas Bertoux's workshop in Pietrasanta, a center of stone art located between the slopes of the Apuan Alps and the Versilia plain.
The shoot was done with Livorno-based photographer Alberto Baracchini. His shots are seductive and elegant, able to highlight the intriguing in every woman. Not surprisingly, he uses colorful clothes and lights enriched with vivid colors that contrast with raw backgrounds to become a symbol of sensuality. The locations lend themselves to unusual shots, taking advantage of the setting of quarry No. 79 "Carbonera" in Fantiscritti and the lived-in spaces of the art workshop. The marble quarries offer an incredible panorama unique to the world and are often chosen as locations for photo shoots.
Photocredits: Alberto Baracchini
July 19, 2012 Caldia White: a magical evening dedicated to raising awareness of Caldia® marble that took place in the picturesque setting of the Caldia quarry in Rocchetta di Massa.
An evening organized by two Apuan marble entrepreneurs, Andrea Franzoni and Roberto Caruso, a veritable living room with white armchairs, marble tables, and a large fan built ad hoc with Caldia blocks, welcomed more than 200 protagonists of the Apuo-versiliese marble sector.
Caldia® marble is a very special white, used especially in modern design and in great demand in America, China and the Middle East.It is a fine material, a crystal white, with green, black and gray veins, truly unique in the world, which is extracted only from the Rocchetta quarry.
Caldia, the magic of marble At the quarries of the Rocchetta an event for 200 big
Caldia White: the quarry event that brought together all the bigwigs of the marble planet
Sept. 21, 2011 - Collaboration with Wolf Günter Thiel, a German exhibition manufacturer, resulted in an original research and experimentation project: 3 artists, 3 designers and 3 architects were invited to create, from a Caldia® marble cube with sides each 30 cm long, an object of their choice. The only constraint was the duration of the Caldia Cube project: 2 months available for conception, 1 month for production.
Taking up the challenge to reveal the ideal beauty carved in the marble cube were designers Karim Rashid (USA), Leonard Theosabrata (Indonesia) and Francesco Lucchese (Italy). As artists Michele Chiossi (Italy), Kurt Hofstetter (Austria) and Giuseppe Silvestri (Italy) collaborated. As architects Davide Macullo (Switzerland) and the couple Alessia Garibaldi and Giorgio Piliego, all from Italy.
Each of the designed objects was produced in a limited edition of 5 pieces and were exhibited in different countries: during Fuori Salone in Milan and at the DMY design festival in Berlin, at Marmomac in Verona, at the Stone Theatre in London, and in Paris. A catalog (German and English) was published by Thiel with the magazine for art and aesthetics "Fair. Zeitung für Kunst und Ästhetik."
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