Terrazzo Quarry

Surface becomes volume. Pattern becomes landscape.

Terrazzo Quarry: a seating system by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova

Soft and monumental, the upholstered elements evoke rocks emerging from an imaginary ground, where material and decoration merge.
Configurable as a compact arrangement or scattered across a space, Terrazzo Quarry is a new entry in the Poltronova collection.

The Terrazzo pattern, developed by Bethan Laura Wood in 2022 from a Venetian residency, takes inspiration from seminato floors and translates into an exclusive textile where gem-like fragments surface across the fabric — a “super fake” terrazzo in dialogue with Poltronova’s experimental vision.

For Milan Design Week 2026, the project came to life as an immersive installation at Serapian’s boutique in via della Spiga 42 — created for the Mestieri d’Arte Bokashi SS26 capsule collection, transforming one of Milan’s most iconic addresses into a vibrant, otherworldly landscape.

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SIT ON THE LANDSCAPE.

Terrazzo Quarry: seating system by Bethan Laura Wood, 2026

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Terrazzo Quarry transforms terrazzo from surface into inhabitable landscape. Conceived as a soft yet monumental seating system, the project unfolds as a cluster of upholstered volumes that can exist as a composed environment or disperse freely throughout space, like fragments of an imaginary quarry.

Developed by Bethan Laura Wood following her residency in a Venetian palazzo, the exclusive upholstery originates from an obsession with the endless variations of traditional terrazzo floors. Here, gemstone-like fragments appear to detach themselves from the aggregate, surfacing as chromatic eruptions across the fabric.

The project blurs the boundary between pattern and architecture, between two-dimensional illusion and physical volume. The elements resemble artificial rocks emerging from a psychedelic terrain, inviting interaction, climbing, gathering, and rest.

Described by the designer as a “super fake” terrazzo, Terrazzo Quarry embraces artifice as language. Material becomes narrative, decoration becomes topography, and the domestic landscape turns into an immersive, playful environment that echoes the radical visions embedded within the Poltronova archive.

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🎨 A “super fake” terrazzo, quarried from a psychedelic landscape.

With Terrazzo Quarry, Bethan Laura Wood echoes the radical visions of the Poltronova archive.
A cluster of sculptural seats — soft yet monumental — where surface becomes volume, and materiality becomes experience, play, and narrative.

An invitation to inhabit an imaginary landscape that celebrates both illusion and structure.

Available soon as part of the Poltronova collection.

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✨ Introducing Terrazzo Quarry by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova.

A monumental yet soft seating system that transforms surface into volume and pattern into landscape.

Conceived as an inhabitable artificial terrain, these upholstered elements can be clustered or scattered like rocks emerging from an imaginary ground — where decoration and material merge into one expressive form.

From Venetian terrazzo floors to a psychedelic topography, Bethan’s exclusive fabric reinterprets fragments of gems breaking free from their aggregate, turning illusion into structure, and inviting new ways of interaction, climbing, and rest.

📍 World premiere soon at EDIT Napoli 2025.

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