Lucia Mercer

Lucia Mercer is a designer specializing in the use of stone and granite. After studying landscape architecture at Cornell University and after spending a short time in the Soviet Union, she returned to the USA in 1979 and began working for Cold Spring Granite Quarry, near Pittsburgh. Her best-known creations are slightly later: in 1982 she designed a collection of three plastically sculptural coffee tables for Knoll, with pure and balanced geometries. On the border between furnishings and small sculptures, these tables were almost entirely handmade by herself, cutting the slabs and drawing an ellipse on them and then removing the excess stone with a hammer and a cleaver.