Studio Irvine

“Tatamino is an intimate piece that adapts the bed to contemporary needs: a functional and flexible structure that invites you to personalise, adapt and truly inhabit your own resting corner.

Tatamino consists of a metal frame with joints secured by bolts. Everything is strictly handmade in the Lispi tradition. The modularity allows you to use one or two tatami units to create your configurations.

You can choose to furnish Tatamino with a material or padded headboard, or with micro-holes into which to insert wooden shelves and hooks. The top of the headboard can serve as a shelf or a desk, depending on your needs. In short, good night… but also have a good day!” Marialaura

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PafPaf began as a chair: simple, honest, immediately itself.

Now it grows into a family of poufs and footrests in different heights and dimensions, all sharing the same DNA: a generous upholstered cushion sitting on solid ash legs turned with Mattiazzi’s industrial precision.

Wood and textile. Structure and softness.
Two materials that need each other.

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Our chairs, embroidered.

PafPaf for on the left, the bentwood chair for produced by on the right 🟡stitched by hand onto tulle, hung as thresholds between the studio’s workshop and its archive.

Above, the archive. Below, the projects translated into thread, slow and deliberate and made part of the architecture itself.

This is my personal research on how a project migrates: from drawing to object, from object to thread, from thread back into space.

The embroidery doesn’t illustrate the objects. It filters them. A membrane between what we design and how we remember designing it.

Creative direction & design: Marialaura Irvine
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Embroidery development and project coordination .co for Aurifil

Designed to be placed in a corner or on a shelf, TANK allows for freedom of orientation depending on spatial requirements and the position of the tap 🟡 A compact washbasin, with a soft, continuous form, conceived as a single controlled volume.

The internal shelf becomes a structural and functional element, organising the space and accompanying the gesture and can also accommodate the tap.

As an architect, I have always regarded my work as a designer as the opportunity to create small-scale architecture; fragments of landscapes capable of embracing gestures, light, memory and function.

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This is a hand-forged nail. It holds the shelf in place. And it can be easily moved to change its position. It is handcrafted in the traditional Lispi ironworking style.

Thus, the very construction of Tatamino is its aesthetic. This is what I mean by structural sincerity.

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The idea of Tatamino arose to offer the chance to create a micro-habitat that was both structure and atmosphere, evoking the Japanese image of the tatami: a bed that becomes a small living space. A place to read, display your most cherished objects, relax under soft lighting, watch a film, listen to music or hang your favourite painting.

Tatamino consists of a metal frame with joints secured by bolts. Everything is strictly handmade in the Lispi tradition...

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Thought the Thread project redefines embroidery as an architectural act 🟡 lightweight walls to hang in a space, exploring textures, transparencies, soft colours and unexpected embroidery patterns, thanks to the machinery and expert craftsmanship.

Creative direction & design: Marialaura Irvine
Embroidery development: Maria Pia Colombo for
Project coordination: .co for Aurifil
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This is how a project begins.

Shapes cut from paper, held against the window. Behind them, Ca’ Br**ta, the building that has been my dictionary for years. Proportion, rhythm, misalignment.

I decompose its architecture into elementary forms. Then I recompose them, in thread. These fragments will become embroidered portals. Soft thresholds. Architectural acts.

Creative direction & design: Marialaura Irvine
Embroidery development: Maria Pia Colombo for
Project coordination: .co for Aurifil
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Thought the Thread project redefines embroidery as an architectural act 🟡 lightweight walls to hang in a space, exploring textures, transparencies, soft colours and unexpected embroidery patterns, thanks to the machinery and expert craftsmanship of and threads.

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