Totem × Mmairo
Totem × Mmairo
Totem in marble
Designed by Karen Chekerdjian, 2017
Manufacturer: Mmairo
Coffee table, 2017
Handmade in Italy
42 (Ø) x 62 (h) cm
White Onyx
Nero Marquinia, Verde Imperiale
Nero Marquinia, Verde Imperiale, Rosso Levanto
Nero Portoro
Semi-precious stone, Sodalite
Nero Antico Marble
or
Rosa Egeo Marble
TOTEM is not a work of design but rather a search for balance between solid and void, between heavy and light. Intuition led desire, from which emerged an idea. The idea evaporated and the object remained. Even though the spirit transcends, the TOTEM continues to be essential. Three elementary geometric forms are stacked one on top of the other in different sequences, like building blocks. The practice in play revisits the simplicity of gesture towards a spiritual harmony between functionality and purposelessness, between form and formlessness. Composed of three shapes—a cylinder, a circle, a cone—TOTEM can be arranged in two compositions.