The Classic Roman Travertine meets the Iranian White Onyx in the new Aquarel Collection, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Budri to create an outstanding combination between a material widely used in architecture for its strength and durability and the delicacy of White Onyx, interpreted in watercolor shades.
The chromatic nuances in pastel tones contrast with the porosity and apparent roughness of Travertine, in a harmonious coexistence of colors and shapes of artistic allure. The skillful combination of colors with warm tones that fade into cold tones becomes a large painter’s canvas characterized by the uniqueness of each brushstroke. Patricia Urquiola explains:
“Every project born with Budri is the result of a four-handed research, a creative gymnasium that always leads us to new languages that I would never have imagined could be created with marble. With Aquarel, we started from the symbiosis between a widely used material in architecture, such as Travertine, and the delicate transparency of white Onyx. Exploring how these materials dialogue together, we have created a game of transparencies, contrasts, but also of chromatic nuances and harmonious coexistence.”
The collection consists of two Dining Tables of different sizes, a Low Table, a Paravent, a Wall Cladding, as well as the majestic Aquarel Artwork and accessories that enrich the tables.
The two living tables have a sculptural and imposing approach, whose common denominator is certainly the monumental base. The large Living Table Aquarel, made of open-pore sandblasted Classic Roman Travertine, has a large rectangular monolithic top and a base made up of four geometric elements in Travertine perforated by delicate cylinders in Pink Onyx. The “Pierce” circular table, on the other hand, is characterized by the circular top in extra-clear glass which lays on a monolithic Travertine base perforated by a mint green Onyx cylinder.
In the Aquarel Low Table the circular top made of Iranian Aquarel White Onyx in shades of pink, peach and green, has a metal, light green tray as base, while Aquarel Paravent is a screen formed by an alternation of four slabs of Iranian Aquarel White Onyx and four slabs of open-pore Travertino Classico Romano marble, supported by cylinders in Lasa Covelano marble. The volumes of this element alternate with a decisive rhythm, in an evocative and contemporary way, allowing marble and onyx to express their charm and their unpredictability.
The installation for the Budri showroom also includes a large Aquarel Artwork, the protagonist at the entrance to the space. Made with a Travertine background, it is an exercise between extremely different materials but united by a play of watercolor shades created by Budri.
Finally, the large Tartan wall cladding is inspired by the geometry of the Scottish fabric but reinterpreted in a more dynamic mood, a mix of pastel colors on a background in Alba Chiara marble, characterized by green and brick-colored veins. The final effect is spectacular.
