Core77 - Blog • Jan. 23, 2026, 3:32 p.m.

Alberto Meda and his son Francisco, both of them Italian industrial designers, designed these pendant lamps made out of volcanic stone. Lava offcuts from stone processing company Ranieri were ground up and mixed with a binder, and the Medas were able to press the resultant composite into molds.

"Unlike marble, lava is not quarried," Francesco Meda explans. "It is gathered directly from the mountain.

After an eruption the magma settles, becoming part of the terrain and forming blocks of lavic stone that can be crafted. The cutting process generates a large quantity of surplus chips, which we wanted to salvage.

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