Back to the Future

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, the fascinating site-specific installation titled 'Back to the Future' designed by AB+AC Architects of Arianna Bavuso and Andre Chedid explores the future of a thousands years old technique.

The space is organized in a sequence of rooms that divide the exhibition into two acts: first, the visitors enter a dark room featuring a specially designed hand-made floor of waves alternating with tesserae in precious Nero Portoro and Orobico Chiaro marble. Past this space, they enter the installation proper, which reveals itself in a kaleidoscopic room.

This is where AB+AC Architects plays with the visitor's emotions by conjuring up the illusion of a limitless universe, formed by a mixture of precious and rough stones that compose a three-dimensional floor of floating pyramids framed by an endless sequence of portals.

The perfect symbiosis of the materials conveys at the same time values of exclusivity and a careful use of resources.

'Back to the Future' celebrates mosaic and terrazzo art with a hypnotic, visual and tactile experience.

Uniqueness is expressed through the infinite potential of custom terrazzo translated into the refined blue variations of sodalite, the stone of logic, capable of transmitting a soothing energy.

Preciousness is embodied in Calacatta marble accents proposed in an important grain size. Sustainability is evoked by the use of small-sized tiles of Lasa white and Botticino marble.

Thus, visitors may virtually transcend physical limits and immerse themselves in a futuristic landscape of infinite possibilities, where the past and the future merge, and the art of mosaics paves the way for future generations.