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Terrazzo Quarry

by Bethan Laura Wood
Un sistema di seduta morbido e monumentale, concepito come un paesaggio artificiale abitabile: un gruppo di elementi imbottiti —utilizzabili in una configurazione composta oppure liberamente sparsi nell’ambiente— simili a rocce, che emergono da un suolo immaginario in cui materia e decorazione si fondono. Il rivestimento, sviluppato dalla stessa Bethan Laura Wood, nasce dall’esperienza di una residenza in un palazzo veneziano, dove nel 2010 la designer rimase colpita dall’infinita varietà dei pavimenti in terrazzo. Da questo ricordo prende forma un tessuto esclusivo, in cui frammenti di gemme sembrano liberarsi dall’impasto per posarsi sulla superficie. Terrazzo Quarry traduce la superficie in volume e il pattern in paesaggio, superando i confini tra bidimensione e tridimensione, tra illusione e struttura, invitando a interagire, arrampicarsi, sostare. Un terrazzo “super fake”, come lo definisce la designer, estratto da un paesaggio psichedelico che richiama la visione radicale propria dell’archivio Poltronova: una topografia immaginaria che celebra la materia come esperienza, gioco e narrazione.
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  • anno2025
  • tipologiasistema di seduta
  • dimensioni[configurazione composta] 227[l] x 169[p] x 71[a] cm
    [roccia 1] 100[l] x 141[p] x 57[a] cm
    [roccia 2] 100[l] x 47[p] x 40[a] cm
    [roccia 3] 100[l] x 118[p] x 71[a] cm
    [cuneo] 62[l] x 51[p] x 39[a] cm
    [base] 95[l] x 98[p] x 8[a] cm
  • materiali[struttura] poliuretano
    [rivestimento] tessuto in poliammide ed elastam con strato intermedio in poliuretano
  • coloriverde/rosa
Chart design
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SOFT. YET MONUMENTAL. 🩷⛰️

Terrazzo can be more than a surface. It can become a world.
Designed by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova, Terrazzo Quarry reimagines the familiar language of Venetian terrazzo by transforming it into an inhabitable landscape. Inspired by the extraordinary floors of Venetian palazzi encountered during the designer’s residency in Venice, the project magnifies the tiny gemstone fragments embedded within terrazzo to an architectural scale, turning them into soft hills, sculptural forms and playful monuments.

The result is a modular seating system that constantly evolves. Every element can stand alone or combine with the others, allowing the landscape to shift endlessly through new arrangements and compositions. What was once a decorative pattern becomes a three-dimensional environment that invites exploration, interaction and rest.
Neither simply furniture nor merely sculpture, Terrazzo Quarry blurs the boundaries between object and architecture, ornament and space, transforming a traditional material language into an immersive experience. It is monumental in scale, yet soft in presence; precious like a gemstone, yet open and playful like a landscape waiting to be discovered.

A quarry. A palace. A gemstone. A place to play.

🧑‍🎨 Terrazzo Quarry seating system by @bethanlaurawood for Poltronova, 2025 
🧩 Playfulness by @francescotoselli
🎙️ Voiceover by @gianlucagaru

#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #Terrazzo #DesignReel
PART 3 — 🪹 A NEST TO REST, TO LOVE OR...

Terrazzo Quarry is a sculptural seating system you can inhabit. Designed by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova, the project transforms terrazzo into an artificial landscape made of soft, monumental upholstered forms.
Inspired by the endless variations of Venetian terrazzo floors discovered during the designer’s residency in a historic palazzo, the system translates surface into volume and pattern into space. The exclusive textile evokes gemstone fragments escaping from the aggregate, settling across the seating elements like pieces of a psychedelic quarry.
The modules can be composed together or scattered freely throughout the environment, encouraging interaction, climbing, rest, and play. Somewhere between furniture, landscape, and installation, Terrazzo Quarry blurs the boundary between illusion and structure, decoration and inhabitation.

🪨 Terrazzo Quarry by Bethan Laura Wood for Poltronova, 2025 

#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #TerrazzoFabric #ContemporaryDesign
PART 2 — Imagery & references

A “super fake” terrazzo.
Gemstones breaking free from the surface.
Rocks from a psychedelic quarry.

Terrazzo Quarry turns decoration into volume, pattern into terrain.
Somewhere between illusion and structure.

More landscape than object.
More fiction than function.

@bethanlaurawood for @poltronova 

— Stay tuned for part 3! 💎🪨🫟 

#Poltronova #TerrazzoQuarry #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoFabric #ContemporaryDesign
Part 1 — How did it come to life?

Terrazzo Quarry didn’t start as an object.
It started as a memory.

During a residency in a Venetian palazzo, @bethanlaurawood became obsessed with terrazzo floors — endless variations, fragments, surfaces that never repeat.

From that obsession, a fabric.
From that fabric, a landscape.

Not designed as furniture, but as something that could emerge.

#Poltronova #TerrazzoQuarry #BethanLauraWood #salonedelmobile #mdw2026
PAST AND PRESENT SHARE THE SAME ROOM.

At Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026, Poltronova brought together historical icons and new productions inside an UN—defined environment: unstable, open, unfinished.

In this temporary landscape, objects are not isolated pieces.
They compose the space.
They activate it.
They transform it by being there.

Ultrafragola, designed by Ettore Sottsass jr. in 1970, meets Terrazzo Quarry, the new seating system by Bethan Laura Wood, 2025.
Two different moments in Poltronova’s history.
One shared condition.
A design icon and a new project living inside the same undefined domestic scenario, where past and present do not follow one another, but shape the space together.

📍UN—
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026
Rho Fiera Milano
@isaloniofficial 

📸 Serena Eller : Eller Studio
@serenaeller : @ellerstudio 

🎨 Creative Direction: Donatello D’Angelo 
@donutsinho @_d_apostrophe_ 

— Ultrafragola mirror/lamp by Ettore Sottsass jr. @ettoresottsass_official 
— Terrazzo Quarry by Bethan Laura Wood @bethanlaurawood 

#Poltronova #SaloneDelMobile2026 #MilanoDesignWeek #TerrazzoQuarry #Ultrafragola

Bethan Laura Wood

1983

Designed for Poltronova:
Terrazzo, Terrazzo Quarry

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