Effepimarmi Launch Halostone

Based on the Halotherapy, (from the Greek Hals, Halos=Salt)
Effepimarmi in collaboration with Idro Water, has conceived a tile
made of salt that allows to make treatments with benefits for the respiratory
tracts and the skin, all in a relaxing context that assures comfort and psycho physic harmony.
Indicated for any ages and recommended to the sportsmen that want to increase their own performances improving the
respiratory ability, the salt therapy is already considered in many
European countries a real sanitary therapy with beneficial effects
scientifically proven by many medical studies.
Halotherapy (also known as speleotherapy) treatment in natural salt cave (speleotherapy) has been known for a long time. The efficacy of speleotherapy is associated with the unique cave microclimate. The natural dry sodium chloride aerosol is the major curative factor of the cave microclimate. It is formed by the convective diffusion from salt walls.
Halostone aim therefore to re-create a dry, sodium chloride rich environment in any treatment room without the need to access rock salt caves.

Halostone tiles are available with large and small granules and 30x30 format.

Halostone was recently presented at SPAdesign 2009 during SUPERSTUDIO exhibition in Milan.

Bad Architecture, Design, Execution

start with the premise that nothing but the best should be good enough for our living, learning, working, playing and healing environment. I strongly believe that we as a nation, and as a "global village" should all, in whatever roles we are in, be as intolerant of bad and mediocre architecture and planning as we should be of bad food. Bad food generally results only in temporary sickness, but a bad physical environment results in permanent malaise.”
George Ferguson President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
I could not agree more especially looking at some monstrosities built in UK since the seventies. However, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and what looks now awful may have looked great (or maybe acceptable) just twenty years ago.
So what makes a building, a house, a playground or anything really, great or somehow acceptable?
I believe that only those objects that withstand the test of time should be regarded as great designs.
Time is a killer! Rain, wind, sunlight they seem to work together trying to destroy what mankind has created, and they are good at that!
Only using materials that do not deteriorate or change during the years we can guarantee a degree of success.

Here below is an example of materials used for the wrong job (i.e. wood in a fountain) Southbank London