Joanne Stone and Liubasha Rose, the designers behind Stone & Rose, transform crystal quartz into lighting and home objects that meld beauty and function. Stone, a jewelry designer, and Rose, who works in hospitality interiors, partnered to bring their unique perspective to the market and haven't look back. We chatted with them about their philosophy, their products and what we can expect to come down the pipeline.
Lighting & Decor: How did your partnership form, and how did you get started in lighting and home decor?
Stone & Rose: Our partnership formed out of mutual admiration for each other's work. It happened very organically as we developed a friendship. We both always dreamed of creating home objects and we united forces. Our strengths are perfectly complementary. Liu can create an entire space, and I get entranced in the small details.
L&D: Talk a bit about your philosophy in terms of your medium of choice, quartz.
S&R: The philosophy is to create spaces that elevate the body and charge the space energetically. We wanted to work with natural materials as much as possible. Joanne was already working with quartz in her jewelry design and it was a natural progression. Quartz takes thousands of years to grow and it has the ability to reprogram our cells on a molecular level. To many ancient civilizations and energy healers, it is considered the master healer of all the stones. Each piece of quartz is hand-picked from a mine in Utah and kept in its natural formation to preserve its energy.
L&D: You're inspired by nature but your products have a very modern take — how do you meld these two approaches?
S&R: We feel that our products have a rawness to them that is very timeless. Their aesthetic sensibility could be just as easily plucked out of the Etruscan era as now. Each piece has a handmade quality and feels like a piece of jewelry — like a fetish object — it’s probably that quality that makes it feel modern despite everything.
L&D: What's your favorite piece in your current collection?
S&R: We love the crystal sconces because they are so versatile and we’ve been using them as components to create larger artworks and installations.
L&D: What's the coolest installation you've done?
S&R: We did a Sagittarius constellation in a Miami Beach penthouse that Liubasha’s firm Rose Ink Workshop designed. We laid the crystal sconces in the shape of the Sagittarius constellation, which represents optimism, discovery, travel and an exploration into the meaning of life. Each sconce was cleansed and then charged with the Sagittarius values to bring energy into the penthouse.
L&D: Is new product on the horizon?
S&R: Yes! We are very excited about adding stones and minerals (so far working with river rocks, pyrite and sulfur) as wall-mounted art installation components so that clients can group them on their own or with our crystal sconces to create installations. These could be constellations, sacred grids, simple grids — your imagination is the limit.
