News
05 25Common Sands Selected for Biennale Saint-Étienne 2025
We’re pleased to share that Common Sands will be part of the Biennale Internationale de Design Saint-Étienne 2025, taking place from May 22 to July 6, 2025. Curated by Isabelle Daëron, our project will be featured within the main thematic exhibition “Ressource(s), présager demain,” which explores the notion of “resources” in a broad, critical, and forward-looking sense.
04 24+52 collection presented at Milan Design Week 2024
The +52 step stool collection, highlighting aesthetically, economically and ecologically more sustainable choices in wood, was presented at the Milan Design Week 2024.
12 23MAXXI Museum Rome
Common Sands - Forite Tiles as part of ‘The New Design Collection’ at MAXXI Museum Rome. On display until March 2024.
04 23Neues Museum Nuremberg
03 23Common Sands - Forite at Collectible
selected by Design Museum Ghent, Common Sands – Forite is shown at Collectible Fair 2023.
08 22The School of the Untold
From August 7th to 13th we will mentor the workshop Performative Plasticity Transitive Matters for the Design Campus at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.
The School of the Untold is a collaborative 6 weeks program curated by Formafantasma.
06 22Common Sands-Forite tiles at the Salone del Mobile 2022
We are proud to officially launch the Forite tiles at Alcova during the Salone del Mobile (from June 5th to 12th) in collaboration with our patners Fornace Brioni and Snøhetta.
01 22Winner Wallpaper Design Awards 2022
Common Sands – Forite Tiles won the Wallpaper Design Awards for Best Domestic Design.
11 21Winner Dezeen Awards 2021
Common Sands – Forite Tiles won the Dezeen Award for Sustainable Design.
10 21Wallpaper 5x5 Future Leaders
We were named by Formafantasma as one of 25 creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project – on using design to address global challenges.
06 21DOMUS #1058
In case you are in need of a good read for the coming weekend (or any other time really), we’d highly recommend the latest edition of DOMUS #1058 which includes a nice article on our project Common Sands and a sneak peak into our collaboration and upcoming project with Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni.
05 21Current Age – Solo Exhibition at Z33
We are proudly announcing our first solo exhibition at Z33: What role can we designers play in the generation, distribution and use of electricity?
