Terrazzo
by Bethan Laura Wood
The precious stones are thus released from the terrace, from the landscape imprinted in the eye, to set themselves in the fabric designed for Poltronova and, used as a covering for the products, give another original idea of relaxation and an unforgettable experience of their own.
- year2022
- typologyprinted fabric
- materialspolyamide and elastane fabric + polyurethane midlayer
- colorsgreen/pink
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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
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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.
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📸 Courtesy of Serapian
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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
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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! 💎🪨
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Superonda by Archizoom + Terrazzo by Bethan Laura Wood, Design Variations, Milan Design Week 2022.
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📍 @design_variations by @moscapartners, @milan.design.week, Palazzo Visconti, Milan
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @ruy_teixeira
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