Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
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Disturbing elements of the natural order to create something new.
Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, the golden couple of italian design,for over 25 years have been designing products that escape the trends.
First of all, they have a philosophical approach: the search for essence in every project , closer to the concept of balance, the goal of their work is not only an aesthetic result but the well-being.
The organic form and the squareness, incoherent worlds that they’ve been able to make them talk to each other, for example in the bathroom world that recognizes them as absolute protagonists.
Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
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Disturbing elements of the natural order to create something new.
Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, the golden couple of italian design,for over 25 years have been designing products that escape the trends.
First of all, they have a philosophical approach: the search for essence in every project , closer to the concept of balance, the goal of their work is not only an aesthetic result but the well-being.
The organic form and the squareness, incoherent worlds that they’ve been able to make them talk to each other, for example in the bathroom world that recognizes them as absolute protagonists.
A design, theirs, which aims to bring together the greatest number of people, it is no coincidence that their research has mostly focused on industrial products, molds and serial production, for a more democratic vision, but they do not consider it a crime a search for that part of the artisan tradition that can preserve and pass on the culture of Italian know-how, confirming their dualistic and curious nature. Theirs is a mature and controlled sign, which coherently ties together like a common thread, very different projects, where every function, every form, every aesthetic is transversal in a temporal dialogue from one object to another, from one company to another, a deconstructed vocabulary that generates a free lexicon because as they maintain, « No freedom can prevent that of others »
In 25 years they have investigated practically all types of furniture, dressing the functions with emotion without ever being repetitive despite being recognisable.
Their products are created to last, not only on the market but above all as companions, silent and faithful in the lives of the people who choose them, this is the key to their success, the ability in a world that screams and desperately tries to be recognised, the desire to abstract oneself, to give lasting happiness and well-being, participating by right in the rites of daily life.
“It would be easier for us to use decorations and rhetorical figures rather than investigate politeness” say Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, their attitude to design over the years has influenced many fields and has recently arrived at architecture, nautical and contract following the bulimic curiosity that has never abandoned them.
They have received numerous international awards and recognitions such as the Compasso D’Oro, the Elle Decoration International Design Award, the Red Dot, the Design Plus, the Good Design Award, the German Design Award; they collaborate and are art directors for some of the most established brands.
“Undoubtedly our collaboration was born from the friendship with Lorenzo and from the confidence in his energy and his desire to collaborate with the designer in an absolutely friendly and constructive manner.”
A mindful approach that is sewed into the fabric of each and every design that goes from the design board to production.
«Where design can live and function can play»
Moodboard, and preliminary studies of Self Control sofa ( 2018) design by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba.
Self Control, sofa 2019 design by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Self Control for example, finds limits. Where design can live and function can play; Self Control is the example we all need to help us understand this subtle and powerful design concept. As a sofa it embodies technical discipline as well as design that matches a distinctive embodiment of Arketipo.
Here, you will find low backs, curved lines, swooping drops and an illusion of a floating space.
One such vision and execution is another stand-out design by Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, Starman. A sofa design that is distinctly about, imposition. A theory of disturbing elements of the natural order to create something new.
Starman is playing with aggressive and powerful contours, designed to impose their being in a unique space.
«Each product has its own story to tell»
Starman, sofa ( 2019) design by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Products by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
