The oldest material on earth, taking direction from a new idea.
ARCA started in Mexico City with a fifteen-year-old, Gerardo Cortina Wiechers, who'd spent summers watching stone suppliers cut corners on his grandfather's projects and decided the industry needed someone who actually cared about getting it right. Two decades later that conviction had grown into one of the world's largest natural stone platforms: roughly 1,500 materials sourced from more than twenty countries, four million square feet in stock, showrooms running from Mexico City to Miami's Wynwood. Their work shows up in places built to last — Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton properties, W Hotels, an expansion of Barcelona's airport — but the reputation was built one-on-one, treating each client's material choice as a problem worth solving rather than an order to fill. That's the same reputation that made them the only company capable of taking Wearstler's idea about weaving and stone
from a sketch to sixteen finished pieces.
Kelly Wearstler has always been drawn to a material that refuses to behave the way it's supposed to. Give her something rigid, ancient, or supposedly resolved, and she'll spend years finding out what else it can do. That instinct doesn't stay in one medium. It moves with her, waiting for the right material to prove the point again. ARCA gave her stone, and a tradition to test it against: the ancient, universal practice of weaving, distilled into forms hard enough to anchor a room and soft enough to look like they might unravel. That premise has now carried across two collections, each one asking a different stone to prove the same point.
I've always loved the contradiction of a weaving pattern rendered in stone — something so soft and pliable, translated into a material that will outlast all of us. That tension between the fluidity of the pattern and the permanence of the material is really the whole point.
Nudo 2.0
NUDO 2.0 carries that same weaving language into onyx, a stone translucent enough to let light move through its own veining rather than simply reflect off it. New forms joined the series — among them a Ping Pong Table that converts to a dining table by removing the net — alongside the classics reimagined in the new material.
Nudo 1.0
Sixteen furniture pieces and five accessories make up NUDO, each carved from marble and built around elaborate knot motifs drawn from the ancient, universal craft of weaving.
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Nudo Ping Pong Table
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Nudo End Table
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Nudo Dining Table
$13,610 USD
