Partnership info
Overview
- Type
- Product Collaboration
- Year
- 2025
The original Liaison, launched back in 2016, was built to celebrate iconic architectural form. This update pushes that idea further into trompe-l'oeil territory: five new patterns where basic geometry starts generating real visual depth and movement across a surface that never actually moves. The architectural precision stays the same. What's new is the optical trick layered on top of it” flat stone behaving like it has somewhere to go. The campaign built a room rather than a sample board. Columns and walls went floor-to-ceiling in the mosaic, at a scale stone patterns rarely get, alongside a coordinating table with a tighter version of the same weave down its legs. Styled with only a handful of plain ceramic pieces, the set let the pattern do all the talking, showing how much this stone gains at architectural scale.
Creative Process
Ann Sacks sources best-in-class marble, travertine, limestone, and onyx from around the world; Wearstler works from that curation to create the specific stone pairings that make up each of Liaison's five new patterns. Where the original Liaison ran on high contrast, this one is quieter: muted taupes, soft greys, and warm browns, colors chosen to reward a longer look.
There's something grounding about working with richly veined marble — each piece carries this history, these natural patterns that took millions of years to form. The variation in the stone brings this authenticity that you can't fake, this connection to something larger than the space itself.
