This Furniture Collection Uses Dyed Sand To Create Landscapes

Photography by Cary Whittier

Artist and designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces that look like three-dimensional landscape paintings.

Each piece is made from three materials – Silica, which composes the foreground, hand-dyed sand is used to suggest layers of earth and distant mountain ranges, and Crystalline, a translucent powdered glass, makes up the skies and bodies of water.

Let’s have a look some of the pieces in the collection…

This drum stool / table is like looking at the night sky with mountains in darkness.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this stool, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.

The Drum – Photography by Jacob Gossett

This desk, with its soft colors, almost looks like a beach, with blue ocean waters and pale tan sand.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this desk, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.

Photography by Cary Whittier

The credenza looks like a dark desert landscape with a light blue sky.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this credenza, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.

Photography by Cary Whittier

The coffee table is similar to a lake surrounded by mountains that also reflect in the water.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this coffee table, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.

Photography by Cary Whittier

The bench, with its dark base, blues and purples, is like the sun setting over a mountain range.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this bench, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.

Photography by Jacob Gossett

This desk appears to different shades of the sky combined with an uneven landscape.

Photography by Jacob Gossett

The mirror, which has the sand layered on top of the mirror, is like a mountain range.

Designer Fernando Mastrangelo has created the Escape Collection, a group of modern furniture pieces, like this mirror, that are made using hand-dyed sand and silica to create simple forms that look like a three-dimensional landscape painting.