Wool rug with bamboo silk - AMAURODES

Carpet by designers Lanzavecchia + Wai

Being a designer means simultaneously being researchers, engineers, craftsmen, and storytellers.

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Wai is from Singapore, located in Southeast Asia, where he studied industrial design at

the National University, and Lanzavecchia earned a bachelor's degree in product design at Politecnico di

Milan in Italy. They began collaborating at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands,

where both completed their Masters in Design under the guidance of Gijs Bakkers, co-founder of Droog

Design.

Lanzavecchia's main interests are the relationships between objects and the human body

and soul, as well as a passionate outlook on future trends. Wai is fascinated by clashes and

fusions of materials, meanings, and forms.

Their collaboration is based on these goals, and coming from two very different countries and

cultures, they seek to draw on each other's experiences, knowledge, and skills to stimulate

lateral thinking and agile, tangible applications.

Design projects are for them research journeys characterized by the search for and selective use of

various design disciplines and professional skills, which are to be curated, cross-pollinated, and nurtured into

concepts and products that offer possibilities and inspire new perspectives.

Lanzavecchia + Wai have jointly gained recognition and acclaim on major design platforms such as

SaloneSatellite, Fuori Salone, and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan (IT), MAXXI -

National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (IT), Depot Basel (CH), Interieur Kortrijk (BE), IMM

in Cologne (DE), Tokyo Design Week (JP), and Beijing Design Week (CN).

Their work has also been featured and promoted in internationally renowned magazines such as

* Wallpaper, Newsweek, FRAME, Flash Art, Form, Metropolis, ICON, DAMn, Items, etc…

Their projects include both limited editions for galleries and museums, and mass-produced products for large

companies, as well as special commissions for brands such as Alcantara, Samsonite, and Mercedes Benz.

The Lanzavecchia + Wai firm was officially established at the end of 2009, during a three-month residency as part of

the Time to Design - New Talent award, at Danish art workshops, to realize their inaugural

collection “Spaziale Series: New Expressions of Skin and Structure”.

Among their recent achievements are being recognized by Newsweek as one of the “Designers of the Future” in June 2012, and a nomination for the “Wallpaper * Design Awards 2013 -

‘Life-enhancer of the Year’ for the MonoLight table lamp.