Marble Crate Portugal Pink Mini

Portugal Pink Marble Crate – Mini

The Marble Crates are based on the humble wooden market crate — an anonymous object designed purely for transport and storage. For centuries, wooden crates have carried fruit and vegetables from the fields to the marketplace, forming part of an everyday infrastructure of cultivation, trade and exchange.

Reconstructed in marble, the familiar utilitarian form is given permanence and weight. The series explores the relationship between function and material, transforming an ephemeral object of circulation into one intended to endure.

This edition is made from Portugal Pink marble, combined with white Carrara and grey Bardiglio marble. Portugal Pink has a characteristically soft, almost soap-like matt surface. Its colour and veining vary naturally from piece to piece, moving between greyish pink, soft peach and deeper rose tones. The shifting veins and tonal variations remain visible in each crate, making the particular character of the stone part of the object.

Designed by Trine Guldager for Autumn Cph, the crates are handmade in Pietrasanta, Italy, in collaboration with a fifth-generation family-run marble workshop. Each piece is constructed from repurposed marble offcuts, allowing existing fragments of stone to determine the colour, veining and individual character of the object.

Only four Mini crates were made. Two are currently available.