Terrazzo Quarry
by Bethan Laura Wood
- year2025
- typologysitting system
- dimensions[composed configuration] 227[l] x 169[w] x 71[h] cm
[rock 1] 100[l] x 141[w] x 57[h] cm
[rock 2] 100[l] x 47[w] x 40[h] cm
[rock 3] 100[l] x 118[w] x 71[h] cm
[wedge] 62[l] x 51[w] x 39[h] cm
[pad] 95[l] x 98[w] x 8[h] cm - materials[frame] polyurethane
[covering] polyamide and elastane fabric with polyurethane midlayer - colorsgreen/pink
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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.
@serapianmilano @bethanlaurawood
📸 Courtesy of Serapian
#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #Terrazzo #Serapian
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
SIT ON THE LANDSCAPE.
Terrazzo Quarry: seating system by Bethan Laura Wood, 2026
@bethanlaurawood
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.
📸 @serenaeller : @ellerstudio
📍Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2026 @isaloniofficial
#Poltronova #TerrazzoQuarry #BethanLauraWood #RadicalDesign #DesignLandscape
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
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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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#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #MadeInItaly #ItalianDesign #EDITNapoli2025
⚡️Rockin’ w/ @bethanlaurawood at @edit.napoli 🪨
At EDIT Napoli 2025, Poltronova unveils Terrazzo Quarry — a new project by Bethan Laura Wood, presented within EDIT CULT at the Loggia del Priore of the Certosa di San Martino.
Conceived by creative director Donatello D’Angelo @_d_apostrophe_ , the installation marks a turning point in the company’s history: for the first time since the foundation of the Poltronova Study Centre under the direction of Roberta Meloni, an entirely original design — not drawn from the historical archive — becomes part of the collection.
A world premiere that bridges past and present, reaffirming Poltronova’s role as a living laboratory of radical imagination.
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#editnapoli #editcult2025 #designexhibition #Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry
✨ 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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#Poltronova #BethanLauraWood #TerrazzoQuarry #MadeInItaly #ItalianDesign #EDITNapoli2025
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