Michelangelo - Lapis Lazuli
The original, daring idea of marble eyewear originated in August 2011, during works on the Natfuse project. A piece of marble was accidentally dropped and the shape of the resulting fragment resembled the front of a frame. This heralded the start of an increasingly ambitious and sensational challenge: to forge marble into a wearable accessory.
Products in the marble industry generally weigh a matter of tonnes, so the aim of achieving an accessory weighing between 39-42 grams with a thickness measured in tenths of mm was truly ground-breaking.
Other materials used for eyewear are ductile and malleable, while the use of inflexible, brittle, heavy marble involved a whole complex of problems to be overcome.
The project required large investments in state-of-the-art software and technology and the creation of a team of artisans and specialists to work solely on the constant development of the product, from technical design to creative design and styling.
Due to the complexity of the material itself, making eyewear in marble, demands constant research and experimentation, not necessary with other materials. The type of marble selected by Budri are obtained from quarries situated in different parts of the world. Therefore processing a new material means dealing with its specific unknown , unpredictable characteristics. to handle these challenges the Budri eyewear laboratory employees skilled artisans,, chemists and geologists who study the stone’s porosity, strength, absorbency and reaction.
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The original, daring idea of marble eyewear originated in August 2011, during works on the Natfuse project. A piece of marble was accidentally dropped and the shape of the resulting fragment resembled the front of a frame. This heralded the start of an increasingly ambitious and sensational challenge: to forge marble into a wearable accessory.
Products in the marble industry generally weigh a matter of tonnes, so the aim of achieving an accessory weighing between 39-42 grams with a thickness measured in tenths of mm was truly ground-breaking.
Other materials used for eyewear are ductile and malleable, while the use of inflexible, brittle, heavy marble involved a whole complex of problems to be overcome.
The project required large investments in state-of-the-art software and technology and the creation of a team of artisans and specialists to work solely on the constant development of the product, from technical design to creative design and styling.
Due to the complexity of the material itself, making eyewear in marble, demands constant research and experimentation, not necessary with other materials. The type of marble selected by Budri are obtained from quarries situated in different parts of the world. Therefore processing a new material means dealing with its specific unknown , unpredictable characteristics. to handle these challenges the Budri eyewear laboratory employees skilled artisans,, chemists and geologists who study the stone’s porosity, strength, absorbency and reaction.
