Thomas Yang’s wooden pedestal table. Until recently, the highest concentration of rock-based design I’d ever seen was in the 1994 Flintstones live-action movie. Which thematically makes sense; stone is quite literally prehistoric. A pebble on the beach could have taken anywhere from a handful to millions of years to form. Of course, naturalists of design and architecture — Isamu Noguchi, Frank Lloyd Wright — have toiled with it.