The Village | Assembly

A diminutive homage to the importance of home

The Village collection celebrates the concept of home as a refuge and the idea of a community united by a common viewpoint.

We invited a select group of designers to create their idea of home, an expression of their various cultures, backgrounds and outlooks. The result is a fascinating and wonderfully eclectic collection of miniature houses in natural stone.

The contribution of renowned New York-based design studio Yabu Pushelberg is Assembly, a trio of sculptural like minimalist pieces in the soft muted tones of Crema d’Orcia limestone. The clean, straight lines and geometric forms spring from their realisation during the design process of the wonderful solidness of the material.

Called Self, Collective and Convergence, each piece conveys a precise message, the idea that as individuals we may stand alone, but we must also understand the value of community and the importance of engaging with one another.

Assembly represents a series of original contemporary accessories for the home, with a deceptively simple design that reminds us how we don’t always need intricate or complex elements to fulfil ourselves. It is the essential, basic things that sustain us and give us joy on a daily basis, and none more so than our home, our haven.

“We started from the concept given to us of The Village, which is an assembly of people gathering together, living closely, socialising. If you look at these towers, they look like stacked dwellings in a village. From there, we embraced Assembly as the name for the collection.”