How can you repurpose luxury?

SvH MORTAIO aims to create a luxurious by-product while honouring the material history and referencing to its’ past with a single curve on its one corner. With the motive of delivering a luxurious by-product to existing luxury lover audience ı decided to use leftover pieces from the military cross project. Since there are lots of White Carrara Marble left from these projects, repurposing them seemed like a need to me.

As my research started with luxury, ı needed to find a connection between the old product and the by-product which brought me to the concept of memorabilia because the reason marble is considered luxury lies within its history.

Therefore, ı decided to redesign a mortar from marble and an ergonomic pestle from beech. The motive behind choosing this specific product was to refer to the military cross by honouring it while focusing on life & death contrast. Since a mortar is used in several fields ı focused on its’ usage in health: crushing medicine, mixing herbs and providing wellness while maintaining a luxurious life.