✳ About the house ✳

It started with a light.

A house of sculptural lighting, drawn from the rooms of the late seventies and eighties — and rebuilt for the rooms of today.

It started with a light.
The studio, 1979

There was a particular kind of room in the late seventies.

Low ceilings. Deep sofas. Smoked glass. Walnut. Chrome. The kind of room where the evening seemed to begin long before the sun went down.

It was in these rooms that our story began.

1979

The beginning

In 1979, in a small design studio somewhere between Milan and Paris, a young group of designers began experimenting with an idea that seemed simple at first: what if a light could become part of the architecture?

Not something placed in a room. Something that changed the room itself.

They worked with curved metal, opaline glass, polished chrome and warm incandescent light, drawing inspiration from the new architecture and furniture emerging across Europe and America.

The first pieces were never intended to become a collection. They were simply objects made for people who believed that the atmosphere of a room mattered as much as what was inside it.

From city to city

Each city left something behind

By the early eighties, the studio had begun travelling. Milan. Paris. London. Los Angeles. Tokyo. New York.

California brought warmth and scale. Milan brought experimentation. Paris brought restraint. Tokyo brought a fascination with the future. New York brought energy.

The collection evolved with every journey. Different materials, different proportions, different silhouettes. But the philosophy remained the same.

Lighting should never simply illuminate a room. It should give the room a reason to exist.

The golden years

Made to be seen from across the room

Throughout the eighties, the house became known for its sculptural approach to lighting. During the day, the pieces behaved almost like furniture. At night, they came alive.

A chrome sphere reflected the room around it. A curved shade transformed a wall. A single warm bulb could change the atmosphere of an entire apartment.

These were objects made for long evenings, late dinners, records playing in the background and conversations that carried on long after midnight.

Then, the world changed

The archive goes quiet

By the early nineties, interiors became cleaner. Technology became smaller. Design moved in another direction. Like many independent design houses of its generation, the studio gradually disappeared from view.

The archive remained. Hundreds of sketches, material samples, old photographs, unreleased designs — objects that had never found their moment. For decades, they remained almost forgotten.

Until now

A continuation, not a reproduction

Today, we are bringing that language back. Not as a reproduction of the past, but as a continuation of it.

We look back to the years when designers were less interested in following a formula and more interested in asking a simple question: what could an object become?

The curves. The materials. The warmth. The proportions. The obsession with atmosphere. Reinterpreted for the rooms of today.

Because some ideas don't belong to a particular decade. They simply wait for the right room.

The archive

  1. 1979

    The beginning

    Somewhere between Milan and Paris, a drafting table, curved chrome and the first opaline spheres.

  2. 1983 — Milan

    The experimental years

    Marble, coloured glass and radical furniture. The years when nothing was expected to behave.

    Milan
  3. 1985 — Los Angeles

    The California chapter

    Travertine, low sofas and sunset through enormous windows. Warmth, and scale.

    Los Angeles
  4. 1987 — Tokyo

    The future arrives

    Dark lacquer, stainless steel and a city that never turned the lights off.

    Tokyo
  5. 1989 — New York

    The house at its peak

    Lofts, black leather and long nights. The pieces at their most confident.

    New York
  6. 1991

    The archive goes quiet

    Dust sheets, boxes of drawings, one lamp left standing in the corner.

  7. Today

    The story continues

    The same language, reinterpreted for the rooms of today.