Arca

ARCA started in Mexico City with a fifteen-year-old Gerardo Cortina Wiechers, who spent summers on his grandfather's projects and came away determined to bring real care to how stone gets sourced and cut. 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 — and the reputation was built one-on-one, treating each client's material choice as something worth solving together. That is what made them the right partner to take Wearstler's idea about weaving and stone

from a sketch to sixteen finished pieces.

Kelly is always drawn to a material that can be pushed further than expected. Give her something rigid or ancient and she will spend years finding out what else it can do, in any medium. 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.