Waste Stone Repurposed as Tableware | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - Feed https://dornob.com Architecture, Interior and Furniture Design Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Waste Stone Fragments Repurposed as Sophisticated Tableware https://dornob.com/waste-stone-fragments-repurposed-as-sophisticated-tableware/ Tue, 06 May 2014 22:13:04 +0000 http://dornob.com/?p=42661 Designer Rachel Griffin noticed that there is a huge problem with the stone milling industry: it leaves behind massive amounts of beautiful stone that usually just goes to waste. When she was working on a line of kitchenware that pairs stone and wood, she saw piles of leftover stone chunks that seemed

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Designer Rachel Griffin noticed that there is a huge problem with the stone milling industry: it leaves behind massive amounts of beautiful stone that usually just goes to waste. When she was working on a line of kitchenware that pairs stone and wood, she saw piles of leftover stone chunks that seemed too beautiful to discard, so she figured out a way to give them a new life.
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Figuring that there had to be some purpose hiding in the castoff material, Griffin collected the stone and considered how to make them into useful objects. These stone pieces,with their smooth surfaces and rough edges, have a strange but lovely combination of textures and visual characteristics. Griffin decided to turn them into bowls and lids for a series that she calls Fragment.
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The stone, the same material used in Griffin’s original kitchenware project, is typically smooth and thin enough to be used as a plate or a bowl. Griffin and her design company Earnest Studio carve out small cavities in the stone to make bowls and even smaller pieces to make lids. The lids and bowls are often made of different types of stone to create an interesting visual contrast. Their beauty and functionality serve as a reminder that even discarded materials can find new life with a bit of creativity.

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