Season's Harvest Begins for the Big River Collection
Urchinite Big River Collection
First off, we have officially launched our Urchinite Big River Collection and you are invited to the MARBLIS Urchinite 2026 Collection Launch Party on April 22 on during SF Climate week in Berkeley, CA.
Our pilot catalog is complete with our new Urchinite 2026 Collection, with natural colors and patterns that are reminiscent of the Pacific coastline ranging from foggy tones like snowcap brine to dark hues like deep dulse. See the designs on our online catalog.
We've shipped out a small sneak peak of our R&D sample postcards to pre-order customers and early adopters. This allowed us to develop a micro-process to go from urchin processing to manufacturing, fulfillment, and delivery in preparation for sample box production in the coming months. For those of you who are pre-order customers who would like to receive one, email us at marblis@primitives.io and we'd gladly ship one to you.
Materials performance testing are complete, with Urchinite having results that either outperform or are comparable to competing countertop materials. See the datasheet in pg 9 of our digital lookbook.
We have completed our packaging design for our sample boxes and it is now in production. The result is a design that is structural, re-usable, eco-friendly, and designed to fit neatly as part of our customers' materials library.
With overwhelming interest from homeowners, architects, interior designers, and business owners, we have officially extended invitations to pilot project partners across the US to welcome them into our pilot program where they will be amongst the first to install Urchinite in their spaces.
Kelp Restoration at Big River, CA
We’re thrilled to share that our season’s efforts are officially underway at Big River in Mendocino, California, where our partners at The Nature Conservancy are harvesting purple sea urchins to restore kelp forests.
Urchin Processing Site Secured
We have successfully secured a site through the support of the City of Ukiah, to process purple sea urchins harvested from kelp restoration sites. Processing is set to begin in the next three months and materials will be used to produce sample boxes and products for the pilot.
Featured on Sunset Magazine
Our work was recently featured in Sunset Magazine, grab a copy at the store or take a look online! In case you missed it, our work was also covered in the New York Times and SF Chronicle.
