Marmomac 2026: Joseph Grima and Davide Fabio Colaci Curate Stone-Focused 60th Edition in Verona

Key facts

• Marmomac 2026 marks the fair's 60th edition, held in Verona.
• Curators are Joseph Grima, head of Space Caviar and newly appointed academic director of the Aral School in Uzbekistan, and architect and lecturer Davide Fabio Colaci, born in 1978.
• Grima's installation On Stone takes the vernacular architecture of the Lessinia, stretching from Verona to Trentino, as its starting point.
• Grima argues stone is among the most sustainable materials because it is very durable compared with reinforced concrete.
• Colaci's section presents ten interior case studies, five historic and five contemporary, minimising material and design waste.
• Colaci cites Gio Ponti's staircase for Villa Planchart in Caracas, where each step uses a different marble from the villa's own production fragments.
• At the last Salone del Mobile, two stands in the new Raritas pavilion for collectible design and high manufacturing focused on marble and sustainability.
• Parasite 2.0 with Bianco67 showed Secunda Natura. Nothing Here Is Just a Wall, using travertine slabs rejected for small imperfections and carved by a robotic arm.
• New brand Matera, founded by Stefan Scholten, makes author objects no taller than 55 centimetres with an all-Italian responsible supply chain.
• Studio EO, founded by Swede Erik Olovsson, combines recovered stone with blown glass in its Drill Vases.
• Korean designers Fict Studio embed marble waste in resin, while Chendù, founded by Ernesto Cesario and Elisabetta Mariani, wraps travertine in recycled PVC cables for its Lulù collection.
• The article is by Giulia Marani and appeared on Artribune.