At FOAID Mumbai 2025, Nexion invited visitors into a space where its upcoming marble designs were experienced as a landscape. Conceived as an immersive design concept, the booth translated marble into a visual landscape-one shaped by depth, light, and perception.
Architects and designers were invited to engage with the Marble Visual Landscape. A composed environment where surfaces relate through depth, rhythm, and spatial continuity, echoing natural stone formations. Within this calibrated setting, veining, tonal transitions, and finishes emerged as perceptual cues, revealing how each marble behaves across scale and context.
This layered experience fostered an intuitive yet precise understanding of material performance, enabling informed comparison and architectural imagination grounded in real spatial conditions.
New marble designs as a visual composition
Even before entering the booth, attention was drawn to suggestive mountain-like views crafted from Nexion marble designs.
These two installations represent a poetic introduction to the concept of Marble as Landscape, where the seven new marble designs were arranged to evoke a natural horizon, transforming the installation into a quiet architectural moment.
This landscape-inspired installation offered an immediate, intuitive reading of marble designs. Variations in veining, tone, and depth unfolded across the compositions, inviting visitors to linger and sense how different marbles interact when perceived as part of a single, continuous field.
The Marble Landscape at the core: a designed system for perceiving marble
At the core of the booth, three calibrated frames articulated the Marble Landscape as a continuous material narrative. The installation unfolded across three framed marble landscapes, each conceived as a quiet window into nature. Within every composition, Nexion’s marble designs took the form of sculpted mountain profiles, where natural veining, tonal depth, and surface character recalled geological strata shaped over time.
Behind each marble formation, a subtle landscape backdrop emerged, suggesting mist, forests, and distant horizons and establishing a gentle dialogue between the material and the natural world that inspires it.
The experience was both interactive and contemplative. A discreet button positioned beside each frame allowed visitors to individually illuminate the marble landscape, gradually revealing textures, movement, and depth. Light became a precise tool of discovery, guiding the eye across surfaces and forms, one landscape at a time.Together, the three frames invited viewers to pause, observe, and engage, transforming marble from a surface into an immersive expression of nature, architecture, and design philosophy.
Each frame presented five different marble designs:
- Full Lappato, amplifying reflectivity and visual intensity
- Lappato Matt, balancing absence of reflection and soft touch
- Soft Naturale, enhances visual appeal and tactile experience
The visual design matrix: an instrument that leads architectural choice
The visual design matrix at FOAID Mumbai was conceived as a design-led gallery rooted in nature, created to help architects and designers understand and select marble with clarity and confidence. All Nexion sintered marbles are organized into two perceptual families, allowing designs to be understood first as a landscape:
- Patterned designs: directional veining and brecciated textures
- Organic designs: mineral clouds, crystal inlays, and small pebbles
Within each family, options span a Subtle to Bold spectrum, reflecting the intensity of veining and tonal transitions. This structured framework allows professionals to compare, interpret, and choose marbles that balance serene minimalism with expressive, statement-making qualities. In doing so, the marble visual look combines the timeless elegance of natural surfaces with the predictability and precision essential for contemporary architectural practice.
Reading marble through composition
Inside, the booth unfolded as a calibrated sequence of material moments, conceived to guide how marble is observed, compared, and understood.
The spatial layout orchestrated a controlled reading of surfaces, where finish and composition guided a precise reading of how each finish performs across scale, surface, and adjacency.
Seven new marble designs including Trambisera, Beige du Marais, Crema d’Orcia, Travertine Crema, Travertine Ash, Taj Mahal, Dolomite were presented, allowing their visual behavior, depth, veining, and tonal continuity, to be read in relation to one another.
A dedicated Dolomite composition introduced an interlocking linear pattern. This fragmented layout reinforced the idea of marble as a relational material-one to be read through sequences, alignments, and contrasts, while on the left nine key surfaces articulated a dialogue between natural perfection and design excellence.
Small, tactile samples of the seven new marble designs, presented in Full Lappato, Lappato Matt, and Soft Naturale finishes, allowed visitors to feel the surfaces firsthand and connect visual perception with material touch.
A dedicated table with marble binders provided access to the full marble gallery
An intuitive understanding of visual behavior
At FOAID Mumbai, Marble Landscape redefined how marble is experienced, an immersive, spatial understanding of surface behavior.
This approach resonated with visiting architects. Ar. Dipen Gada noted how a new collection immediately stood out for its global quality and future applicability, while Ar. Niraj Shah highlighted the transformative power of finish and composition, observing how the same marble shifts character from gloss to matt and through varied layouts.
For Ar. Tushar Kothawade and Ar. Chiranjivi Lunkad, the strength of the experience lay in its flexibility—textures, finishes, and sizes that allow designers to completely reimagine space.
Together, these perspectives reaffirm Nexion’s philosophy: uniting the timeless appeal of natural surfaces with the clarity and precision demanded by contemporary architectural design.
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