F.lli MELE has a long tradition in living stone production and working. It’s three generations since the company has started extracting the raw material from its own quarries situated in Cursi (LE), an area well-known for the excellent quality of its marbly limestone. Creative passion and traditional but innovative know-how have made it possible for the company to become leader in its business and geographic area. Specialised manufacturers and trained technicians constantly sample every single phase of the production process, so that a high standard quality for each product is guaranteed. Together with the extracting tradition, the company has its own project office and high tech laboratory constantly looking for new ways of working the typical Salentine stone, realizing a wide set of marvellously unique products that can be used both in buildings and outside and inside furnishing. F.lli Mele in collaboration with the School of Architecture of the University of BARI, has already realized stereotomic architecture aiming to show the unlimited ways of using Pietra Leccese, combining tradition with technological innovation and contemporary styles (Biennale di Venezia obelisco and entrance portal). At the moment the company is about to realize a quarry theatre, in order to give value to already used quarries. (Theatre quarry CURSI)