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Vaselli - Spirito Pietra inaugurates the Marmoteca and welcomes architects and designers

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Vaselli - Spirito Pietra inaugurates the Marmoteca and welcomes architects and designers it has been modified: 2014-01-14 di jessica zannori

With the new year it was inaugurated, in Rapolano Terme (Siena), the newest Marmoteca Vasey. The Marmoteca is located inside the Vaselli company headquarters and is part of the extensive renovation project which will also open to the public next spring. new showroom Vasey House. The intervention aims to create, in addition to a better organization of the exhibition areas, also new common spaces where to live, experiment and design with stone. The Marmoteca is a space in the making, an archive in which over 70 samples of marble, granite and

natural stones of different origins and finishes, dedicated to the knowledge of the different stone types, to the recovery of their history, to consultancy on production processes and on the most suitable processes for each material. Research, innovation and sartorial approach represent for Vaselli the essential points of reference for the company's activity, led by the three brothers Cinzia, Danilo and David who comment on the opening of the Marmoteca as follows:

“Telling the stone is part of our work and for us it also represents a way of preserving and enhancing the history and business activity. We want this place to contribute to creating an inseparable link between the millenary culture of marble, the historical memory and the artisan knowledge that has been handed down to us over the years. For this reason, we believe that this new space, consisting of the Marmoteca and the new Vaselli Casa space-laboratory, which will open shortly, can inspire in the sector workers the rediscovery of a new design interaction with the potential of the material ".

The Marmoteca Vasey, designed together with designer Emanuel Gargano and Marco Fagioli of Oco Studio, is a place of experiences, the perfect location to decide together with customers the use of materials, the ideal place to host and organize architectural meetings and in-depth workshops. An open laboratory, dedicated to the research and innovation that have always distinguished the activity of the Rapolano company. The entire Vaselli Casa and Marmoteca project was born from the desire for openness and discussion, with the aim of responding to the increasingly diverse requests of architects, designers and private clients, both in interior design and architecture, through new spaces and design support services.

Open all year round, the Marmoteca offers architects, designers and lovers of natural stone formation, unique, stone around the world, with the opportunity to visit, by appointment, also the nearby quarries of Rapolano travertine.

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