SolidNature collaborated with AMO on Groceries, which is an installation composed of stone objects modeled after everyday supermarket products and food packaging. Presented during Milan Design Week, the project transformed marble and onyx into sculptural interpretations of stacked produce, cartons, bottles, cans, and retail shelving displays arranged within a grocery store-style environment.
The art installation combined SolidNature’s natural stone materials with AMO’s retail-inspired spatial layout and merchandising structure. Objects throughout the space replicated the proportions and visual language of disposable consumer packaging while retaining the weight, veining, and polished surfaces of carved stone. Shelving systems, counters, and display fixtures extended the supermarket format across the exhibition interior. Groceries was installed at SolidNature’s Milan showroom during the 2026 edition of Milan Design Week.
Image Credit: SolidNature, OMA, AMO
What's Driving This Trend
- Materialization of Packaging
- Recasting disposable packaging forms in enduring materials highlights potential for products that blur the line between utility and lasting design, enabling a new category of collectible everyday objects.
- Luxury Everyday Objects
- The translation of mundane grocery items into marble and onyx suggests demand for elevated quotidian goods that merge mass-market aesthetics with premium materials and craft.
- Retail-as-exhibition
- Treating store layouts as curated installations reveals opportunities for immersive retail environments that prioritize narrative, materiality, and experiential value over mere transaction.
Who This Affects Most
- Home and Interior Design
- Solid stone interpretations of common packaging point to novel décor products and surfaces that integrate familiar visual cues with durable, artisan materials.
- Luxury Goods and Fashion
- Stone-crafted versions of everyday items indicate a pathway for limited-edition, high-margin pieces that repurpose consumer culture iconography into collectible luxury artifacts.
- Retail and Merchandising
- The supermarket-style staging of sculptural objects exposes potential for stores to function as cultural venues where merchandising becomes a platform for brand storytelling and material-led differentiation.
