Studio La Cube's 'Rock Factory' Explores Natural vs. Artificial at Camp Design Gallery

Stefano Fusani and Clara Hernández, the Italian-Spanish duo behind Studio La Cube, present five sculptural pieces (functioning as stools or small tables) in their solo exhibition 'La fabbrica delle rocce' at Camp Design Gallery in Milan. The works are made from jesmonite, a water-based acrylic resin, and beech wood inserts. Transparent resin sheets were used to cast the ground, then pigmented to mimic natural stone so convincingly that it deceives both sight and touch. After finishing, the artificial part appears organic, while the highly polished wood looks factory-made. With these pieces, the millennial designers (born between the late 1980s and early 1990s) abandon their previous obsession with geometric forms like cubes and pure lines, instead engaging in a theoretical reflection on the boundary between the natural and the domestic. The exhibition questions the notion of nature as a cultural construct, proposing a 'rock factory' that blurs the line between the organic and the manufactured.