‘Aphrodite’ collection, by Robin Grasby and Temmer
Designer-maker Robin Grasby, who originally trained as a joiner and cabinetmaker, won a Wallpaper* Design Award in 2011 (W*143) and has been on our radar ever since. Following the launch of his own surface company Altrock last year, we knew we had to get him on board for this year’s Handmade.
Altrock sees Grasby give new life to discarded materials, creating work surfaces and tables from pieces of natural stone set within a resin mix made up of recycled marble chips, recycled marble powder and colour pigments. Having mostly worked on bespoke interiors, he had the urge to take the process in a different direction. Handmade provided the perfect opportunity: ‘The call from Wallpaper* came at just the right time, as I had been working on some new construction techniques using Altrock that meant moving into three-dimensional pieces,’ Grasby says. ‘It seemed like a great platform for showing what can be achieved with these new methods.’
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