Diespeker has supported another young design team with an interesting take on designing with natural stone and dye.

Silo Studio is a collaboration between Attua Aparicio Torinos and Oscar Lessing, who met at the Royal College of Art. Their work is based around industrial processes and materials using their own style of hands-on approach, which they call ‘handmade hi-tech’.

For this project, Attua came up with a design idea based on an enduring image from her childhood. She remembers an incident at her parents laboratory when a bottle of dye leak over a white marble top leaving a beautiful purple stain that went all the way through the table.

She was keen to replicate the effect. On a visit to a Cararra marble quarry, she broached the question of dyeing marble, only to meet with stern resistance! However, Attua was not deterred, especially when she discovered that Greek and Roman white marble temples and statues had once been painted, not kept pure white as once thought.

Silo Studio approached Diespeker and MD John Krause was keen to help, supplying the Cararra marble to be dyed. Attua and Oscar spent a long time on research and testing, and discovering a successful method came down to trial and error. The result is a stunning and unique design that doesn’t mask but rather enhances the white marble.