Surface Inc. are proud to introduce a young rising star in the surface design arena.
Alessia Giardino graduated with a BA in Textile design in Florence, followed by, in 2009, an MA in Textile Futures from Central St Martins in London.
Innovative to the core, Alessia chooses to specialise in taking superfine nanotech concrete and challenging the accepted perceptions, making the most solid of building materials a delicate and massively unexpected quantity. Working in an entirely bespoke fashion, each piece of work is different from the next ensuring your project will always remain original.
Alessia also works with the environment, using elements within the environment to impact and enhance her designs, giving her clients a dynamic design that changes and challenges the viewer in different ways as it evolves over time.
Concrete Lace & Natural Footprint
Intricate lace-like patterns, formed in concrete by the inclusion of fine, laser-cut wood laminate placed under the surface during manufacture. In so doing, during the natural life-cycle of the concrete the wood de-laminates at random points, providing a beautiful, evolving interplay between the surface and the light until they finally fall off, leaving a permanent trace in the concrete surface.
Polluted Pattern & Concrete Wallpaper
An extremely innovative juxtaposition of pollution and beauty, Alessia uses photocatalytic paints and sprays to capture airborne pollution in delicate and thought provoking patterns which develop further and further over the life of the building. Concrete wallpaper makes use of photocatalytic materials mixed in with concrete which can be used to create secret drawings which slowly come to life as the UV rays activate the chemicals which ‘eat’ polluting elements in the air.
Embossed, Engraved and Folded Concrete
Treating concrete with different techniques to create fluid, fabric-like folds and creases or by engraving and embossing patterns into surfaces, texture is created that can be an impactful feature for walls, floors and furniture.
1 class="entry-title">Surface Inc. are proud to introduce a young rising star in the surface design arena.
Alessia Giardino graduated with a BA in Textile design in Florence, followed by, in 2009, an MA in Textile Futures from Central St Martins in London.
Innovative to the core, Alessia chooses to specialise in taking superfine nanotech concrete and challenging the accepted perceptions, making the most solid of building materials a delicate and massively unexpected quantity. Working in an entirely bespoke fashion, each piece of work is different from the next ensuring your project will always remain original.
Alessia also works with the environment, using elements within the environment to impact and enhance her designs, giving her clients a dynamic design that changes and challenges the viewer in different ways as it evolves over time.
Concrete Lace & Natural Footprint
Intricate lace-like patterns, formed in concrete by the inclusion of fine, laser-cut wood laminate placed under the surface during manufacture. In so doing, during the natural life-cycle of the concrete the wood de-laminates at random points, providing a beautiful, evolving interplay between the surface and the light until they finally fall off, leaving a permanent trace in the concrete surface.
Polluted Pattern & Concrete Wallpaper
An extremely innovative juxtaposition of pollution and beauty, Alessia uses photocatalytic paints and sprays to capture airborne pollution in delicate and thought provoking patterns which develop further and further over the life of the building. Concrete wallpaper makes use of photocatalytic materials mixed in with concrete which can be used to create secret drawings which slowly come to life as the UV rays activate the chemicals which ‘eat’ polluting elements in the air.
Embossed, Engraved and Folded Concrete
Treating concrete with different techniques to create fluid, fabric-like folds and creases or by engraving and embossing patterns into surfaces, texture is created that can be an impactful feature for walls, floors and furniture.
