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Salviati Glass

Luca Nichetto was born in 1976 in Venice. He studied at the city’s Istituto Statale d’arte, before undertaking a degree in industrial design at the Università Iuav di Venezia, from which he graduated in 1998. In 1999, Nichetto began his professional career with Murano-based glass maker Salviati, later becoming a product designer and consultant for lighting company Foscarini. In 2006, he founded his eponymous practice in Venice. In 2011 he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, to open a second studio and he continues to live in and work from this city. Over the course of his career, Nichetto has served as art director for many international design brands and he has developed an in-depth knowledge of the design industry. He has lectured and led workshops at various universities, including serving as a professor of design at the Università Iuav di Venezia, as well as sitting on juries for assorted international design competitions. Nichetto’s work has been exhibited worldwide and has been th...

Cristina Parreño Paper Chandeliers

Cristina Parreño Architecture worked with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create the Paper Chandeliers installation in the VIP area of ARCO Madrid. The team from MIT comprised James Coleman, Sharon Xu, Koharu Usui, Natthida Wiwatwicha and Hannah Ahlblad. Paper Chandeliers installation in the VIP area of ARCO Madrid. .  ..

Wood Spiral Lattice

For the London Design Festival, award-winning architects Amanda Levete Architects and engineering firm Arup have simultaneously framed and opened up the Cromwell Road entrance to the V&A. The installation is incredibly successful; perhaps surprisingly so, given its simplicity. Three stories high and 12 meters in diameter, the wave is made of oil-treated American red oak, using laminating techniques traditionally used in furniture making. Its three-dimensional latticework spiral draws you into it, and then into the V&A .  

David Brewsters Kaleidoscopes

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards the invention of the kaleidoscope around 1815 and within three years, thousands of Kaleidoscopes sold in Paris and London. It’s no wonder why so many love exploring the geometric facets, colors, lighting and reflections created within a Kaleidoscope… at all scales. Art or architecture, observing from afar or within, these sculptural forms made of colored objects such as mirror, glass, beads, pebbles or metals are a huge inspiration for my 2013 collection .