How AMMA Studio creates ‘Objects of Desire’ from everyday objects

AMMA Studio takes the ordinary—cement, coffee, salt, metal, wood—and transforms these materials into enduring objects that merge sculpture with design, featured in Document's Fall/Winter 2014 issue.

When Samuel Amoia and Fernando Mastrangelo joined forces to create AMMA Studio, the duo set out to redefine design. AMMA Studio takes the ordinary—cement, coffee, salt, metal, wood—and transforms these materials into enduring objects that merge sculpture with design. For these pieces AMMA hand-dyed cement, pouring it in layers to form patterns and textures that turn into a narrative on concrete. The result is a symphony of contradictions—stools that are both masculine and feminine, rough yet smooth, and a table that is sturdy, yet charmingly delicate.

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