15/05/2026
Stone introduces a sense of weight and calm into lighting design, transforming illumination into a spatial experience rather than a purely functional act. In the Türkiye context, translucent marbles such as onyx from Afyon and Bilecik, as well as fine-grained light marbles from Marmara and Muğla, are particularly suited to lighting applications due to their ability to soften and diffuse light. Used this way, stone becomes not a surface, but a medium through which light is shaped, filtered, and felt.
This material sensitivity is also reflected in Merve Kahraman’s “Sare” collection, where Turkish stones, including white, light blue, dark green, amber, cream, cherry, black, and pink marbles, are used to explore the tactile and atmospheric qualities of light through stone.