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November 12, 2008

Sean Yoo' s award winning Opus Incertum

 Opus Incertum  is found at italian design lab www.casamania.it
Let your imagination decide how best use it: to partition, to store...

Official blurb is 'recipient of the design distinction award by ID Magazine, the opus incertum is made from expanded polypropylene and measures 39.4" x 13.8" x 39.4" and can be stacked.   can be used indoors or outdoors. 100% recyclable. sean yoo grew up in los angeles and is currently a partner in apt5 design in italy. their design firm has collaborated with firms such as frighetto and jongform.

 

If your latin is like mine , rather on the thin side ...a quick clip from Wikipedia:

Opus incertum was an ancient Roman construction technique, using irregular shaped and random placed uncut stones or fist-sized tuff blocks inserted in a core of opus caementicium.

Initially it consisted of more careful placement of the coementa (rock fragments and small stones mixed with concrete), making the external surface as plain as possible. Later the external surface became further plain by reducing usage of concrete and choosing more regular small stones. When the use of concrete between stones is particularly reduced, it is defined opus (quasi) reticulatum.

Used from the beginning of the 2nd century BC until the mid-1st century BC, it was later largely superseded by opus reticulatum.

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