Design Postcards: terrazzo eggs
A little something I came across that I thought you might like, posted every now and then as a free bonus. This time: how do you like your marble in the morning?
This image of three hard-boiled eggs designed into a terrazzo floor outside a café in Venice has been doing the rounds on Instagram and I love it almost more than I can say. The picture was taken by Marta Orlikowska, who describes its location as the last true local bar in Venice where residents go to escape the tourists. For that reason she chose not to identify the location, so if you do recognise it, please respect her wishes as the owner of the photograph (which she gave me permission to use).
Once seen as poor man’s marble, in recent years terrazzo has become fashionable to the point of ubiquitous. First created in Turkey in about 10,000 BCE (predating the invention of the wheel by some 4,000 years), examples have also been discovered in Pompeii (around 450 BCE to 79AD). The “modern” terrazzo period is said to have begun in the 1500s in the Friuli region, north of Venice.