Designer Rafael Prieto from Mexico and French artist Loup Sarion from Toulouse found common ground in the shared context of New York City, and their joint practice Marrow Project has emerged from their dialogue around the object world and the origins of beauty. 

It is a workshop for metamorphosis, visual riffs and translations of form across timescales, inhabiting“design”as a threshold practice, where objects without use become scored, in various ways, in an aesthetics of activation. Made with linen stretched over a hand-sculpted skeleton of steel, based on a sketched silhouette, the Marrow lamps, reference and rescale bone fragments.

Marrow Project is an evolving design project, which emerged out of their dialogues around the object world alongside a desire to probe, play and think with the poetics of functionality. Light sculptures made in hand-stretched fabric over shaped steel, each of which uniquely references and rescales bone fragments—residue lovingly collected from dinner parties—like anatomy for illumination. Handmade in New York City, the lighting sculptures are all unique.