Lamp Design & Craftsmanship Specialization

Laura Palacio is an industrial designer, director, and founder of Colombian brand Vida Útil. She has worked as a spatial designer, interior designer, collaborated on showcases for fashion brands, and designed furniture for the domestic, retail, and hospitality sectors.

In 2012, she founded a design and lamp manufacturing brand and with it discovered her passion as a designer: light. Her projects span everything from home lighting to hotels, restaurants, retail, offices, and spas. Her lamps and lighting solutions are versatile with a timeless and conscious aesthetic.

Piergiorgio Robino is a multi-disciplinary artist from Asti, Italy. In 1997, Piergiorgio founded Studio Nucleo, where he is the creative director. The Turin-based studio is composed of artists and designers that work with new materials. Most notably, resin has become their signature material.

Studio Nucleo’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in museums throughout Europe, the US, and South America. Their work has also been part of countless group exhibitions throughout the world.

Kate Colin is a paper-folding artist and lighting designer based in Glasgow. Her earliest memory of creating paper art was at the age of eight, when her mathematician father would make polyhedra models out of paper. Since then, she’s been creating handmade paper designs, with her first exhibition being The Lighthouse, Scotland's Center for Design and Architecture in Glasgow. After being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Kate had the opportunity to be mentored by the leading paper-folding artists in Switzerland and Italy as a QEST Scholar.

Her work has also been exhibited in London Design Fair and Manchester Craft & Design Center. She has received numerous awards from different organizations like The Heritage Craft Association, Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award (Creative Scotland), and Crafts Council Hothouse Programme. Her work has been featured in publications such as Stylist, Elle Decoration, Loader Monteith Architects, and FT Weekend. In addition to hosting workshops from her studios, she also takes private commissions from clients like V&A Dundee, Anncoc Whisket, and Charlotte’s Place, among others.

As the daughter of an architect father and artist mother, Marre has always been exposed to exploring creative outlets. She has been participating in exhibitions since her studies in fashion, which she found too limiting for her ideas. Marre eventually switched to studying sculpture and continued with furniture design. It was during her first exhibition in Milan that her ceramic lamps were recognized, and put into production by Italy’s most renowned design company, Cappellini.

Marre has been running her own design business for twenty years. She has made furniture, tableware, decorative homeware, jewelry, watches, and more. She has designed for Capellini, Offecct, and the interiors of the hamburger restaurant chain “Home Burger”. However, Marre’s biggest client is herself, and prefers the total freedom that is brought by working on her own projects.

Daniela Navas is a self-taught knot artist and founder of La Marea Macramé, her own macramé decor brand that has more than 23K followers on Instagram. Under her label, she collaborates with decoration stores and design professionals who invest in local, handmade products for their projects.

Ever since she discovered macramé, knots and cords have become part of her daily routine, and even that of her family. She loves this art form for its versatility, which encourages creative exploration as well as playing with different shapes and designs.