Look closely at Nagi, the new stone texture designed by Goerge Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg for Salvatori, and you’ll spot a dynamic anomaly.

The ripples in the stone seem to rise and fall, exhibiting a pattern of ascension and decension akin to the rhythms of the sea.

The effect is exactly what the designers intended. The ripples in each tile have different amplitudes, the space between ridges narrowing across the surface: “A wavy motif that is more compressed on one side and then gradually opens out, creating wider, softer ripples. The beauty of the design lies in the fact that the short sides of the tiles start and finish at the same height, thus providing scope to pair them in different ways.”

Nagi—a Japanese term that conveys the undulating pattern of a stone hitting water—thus offers designers creative flexibility. Tiles may be aligned vertically or horizontally for different configurations of this rippling pattern, as below where it captures the concentric folds of an unfurling curtain.

Salvatori offers Nagi in the brand’s trademark palette of marble and limestone. Colors include the snow-white Bianco Carrara, creamy Crema d’Orcia Select, the tawny Placido Paradiso, the gray skies of Silk Georgette, the deep greens of Verde Antico and Verde Guatemala, and the inky Pietra d’Avola.

Fresh off its debut last month at Salone, Nagi just finished the next leg in the exhibiton circuit at NYCxDESIGN. You may also encounter it at Salvatori’s flagship showroom in SoHo.

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