SolidNature and Sabine Marcelis Turn Fashion Week Table into 400-Piece Edition

SolidNature and Sabine Marcelis have converted a one-night table installation for Amsterdam Fashion Week 2026 into a limited edition of 400 carved stone candleholders. The natural stone brand and the Dutch designer decided to commercialize the pieces after an enthusiastic response to their collaborative table setting at the event's opening dinner.

The original installation arranged sculptural candleholders across a minimal white table to form a continuous visual gradient. For the commercial release, SolidNature and Marcelis refined the concept from six natural stones in three sizes down to two stone types: Honey Onyx and Sunset Dune Travertine.

The design draws a direct link between fashion styling and object composition. Users can arrange single pieces into custom modular setups that mimic the fluid movement and color of a flame.

'Natural stone carries a history that no designer can replicate. What I love about this collaboration is how Sabine brings that history into a contemporary context, revealing qualities that might otherwise be overlooked. Seeing the response to the installation made us want to share that experience with a wider audience, so we created objects that people can live with and make their own. Like a fashion collection, the design of the candleholders is defined by carefully selected textures, patterns, colours and shapes. Each piece is a powerful statement in its own right, but when combined, they take on a completely different function or appearance,' David Mahyari, owner of SolidNature, tells designboom.

A shared exploration of color and natural stone

The collaboration builds on a design language the two partners established earlier. Their ongoing partnership previously produced the Beyond the Surface installation during Milan Design Week 2023, which featured a seven-meter-long dining table crafted from six distinct travertines bound together by Marcelis' signature color-treated glass.

Where the Milan installation used natural stone as a monumental architectural foundation, the candleholder collection brings the material above the tabletop to directly shape the ambient atmosphere of a space. Marcelis' practice frequently centers on light, geometry, and material transformation. SolidNature contributes technical mastery in sourcing, cutting, and carving rare natural stones.

Material properties and edition details

The two stones behave very differently in light. Honey Onyx features a natural translucency that allows ambient light to pass through its soft orange surface, illuminating internal mineral layers. Sunset Dune Travertine offers an earthy red hue marked by porous textures formed through geological processes over thousands of years.

Workers carve each piece from solid blocks. Every candleholder retains a distinctive curved silhouette designed to accommodate three standard dinner candles. Because the direction of the cut reveals varying veining patterns — shifting from sharp linear runs to soft, cloud-like formations — every candleholder remains entirely unique.

SolidNature offers the collection in two lengths, 500 and 650 mm, with a uniform width of 100 mm and height of 150 mm. The four distinct variations are limited to 100 pieces each, sold exclusively through the SolidNature webshop. The release extends a pattern in the partnership: turning large-scale, ephemeral stone installations into objects that a wider audience can own and arrange on its own terms.