There was so much fantastic work to admire this past weekend during the blizzard of design shows, but at the Sight Unseen Offsite fair, one new design duo stood out. Interior designer Samuel Amoia and sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo started AMMA Studio three months ago, and presented their first collection of sculptural furniture combining materials like pink Himalayan rock salt, sand, coffee grounds, and silica, while using a unique casting process that fuses the materials with pigmented cement or plaster. For the console table pictured here, Mastrangelo explains, “we used hand-dyed cement coated in cast rock salt to create a historical, kind of onyx feel.” Photo: Wendy Goodman
These black pieces combine hand-dyed cement with rock crystal and black silica sand. Photo: Courtesy of AMMA Studio
Amoia is seated on the left, and Mastrangelo is on the right. Behind them is a mirror, made out of glass crystal, that was commissioned by a client. “The design was inspired by the geometry and the multifaceted depth of a diamond,” Amoia told me on the last day of the fair. “The response to our work has been ” well, to say that it has been overwhelming is an understatement.” Photo: Courtesy of AMMA Studio
