Lea Colombo on ATOM Stool.
A modular stool between sculpture and function - fragments reassembled into a new constellation.
Lea Colombo (b. 1993, Cape Town) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working between Cape Town and Milan. Her sculptural work investigates colour, light and energy, and often combines stone, glass, steel and recycled materials. The ongoing ATOM series explores modularity, sacred geometry, and the relationships between bodies in space.
For Project Materia 2026 she contributes the ATOM Stool, produced from recycled materials and conceived as both object and module - a stool intended to live individually or collectively.
In the artist's words
For Project Materia 2026 Copenhagen, the ATOM Stool continues Lea Colombo's exploration of connection, vibration and modular form through an object between sculpture and function.
Built from intersecting curves and balanced geometries, the form references atomic structures, sacred geometry and the invisible energetic relationships between bodies, colour, material and space. Produced using recycled materials, the stool carries a narrative of regeneration and transformation: fragments reassembled into a new constellation.
The piece
Medium: Matek™ (recycled materials) · Dimensions: L45 × W45 × H45 cm
Built from intersecting curves and balanced geometries, the ATOM Stool sits between sculpture and function. Across a room, multiple stools form shifting compositions, each carrying its own rhythm through colour, finish and form while remaining part of a larger system.
