AL.M – 01 is a minimalist furniture collection created by Minsk-based DARIAGHEVOND. The debut series from this Russian-Armenian duo pairs aluminum AMG3 – an alloy more common in industrial fabrication than decorative objects – with slabs of dark-veined marble. Five pieces make up the collection, each built on the same structural logic: flat aluminum plates intersect to form stable, symmetrical bases, while thick marble tops rest above them. Aluminum reflects its surroundings, shifts with light, and carries the cold precision of machine processing. Marble absorbs light, holding millions of years of geological compression in a surface that registers warmth by comparison. DARIAGHEVOND treats the pairing as a structural problem – how two materials with opposing physical properties can share load and visual weight.

Object 01, a side table standing 500 millimeters tall, makes the collection’s formal language most legible. Four polished aluminum plates cross at center to create a base that appears weightless from one angle and solid from another. The cruciform structure carries echoes of Mies van der Rohe’s column details – thin planes gaining rigidity through intersection rather than mass. A 20-millimeter marble slab sits on top, its deep burgundy veining set against the reflective geometry below. DARIAGHEVOND produces this piece in both polished and satined aluminum finishes. The polished version mirrors its environment, pulling the surrounding room into the object itself. The satined surface diffuses light into a softer, matte register that recedes instead, shifting the visual weight to the stone.

DARIAGHEVOND approaches each object as a small structural exercise, grounding proportion and load-bearing in architectural logic rather than decorative instinct. The duo cites architectural precedent as a primary influence, and the work reflects it: these are objects that behave like buildings in miniature, where every dimension serves a structural rationale. Aluminum thickness holds at 10 millimeters throughout the series, giving the bases enough material presence to stand against the stone without overwhelming it. This calibration between metal and marble runs through all five pieces, scaling up and down while maintaining the same ratio. The dimensions of Object 01 – 380 by 380 by 500 millimeters – place it at the scale of a bedside or sofa-adjacent piece, compact enough that the material conversation stays intimate rather than monumental.