Lucidi Pevere

Designers Paolo Lucidi (1974) and Luca Pevere (1977) share roots in Udine and an Industrial Design degree from Politecnico di Milano. Factory shifts, shop counters, and long nights in the studios of Piero Lissoni, Marc Sadler, Clino Trini Castelli, and Marco Ferreri taught them that good ideas survive only if they also run smoothly on the factory floor. Since opening their own office in Udine in 2006, the duo has worked with Foscarini, Arper, Kristalia, Horm, and Teracrea, favouring materials that ask for experimentation. The concrete Aplomb pendant for Foscarini began as buckets of mix poured into home-made moulds; the resulting lamp keeps the rough pores visible, turning a building material into a quiet beam of light. Chairs for Arper and Kristalia follow the same method: strip the form to its task, test it until it passes both strength rigs and living-room scrutiny. Early trophies—the Ernesto Caiazza Promosedia Award for Svita and the Maniago Design Award for Taj—confirmed their hunch that a product can be both straightforward and memorable. Today a handful of collaborators in their Friuli studio still cut first prototypes by hand before sending files to production partners across Europe.