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Isabella

Isabella Garbagnati founded her studio in Paris in 2015, starting to design and produce lighting for Baxter and for private clients of critically acclaimed antiquarian Florence Lopez. The studio moved to Milan in 2018, Designing and producing made-to-order and bespoke luxury sculptural lighting.

Isabella designs and engineers all her products, which are the expressions of her own ideas, rather than the market.

All her designs are made in Milan, using a variety of techniques and a network of local manufacturers and artisans, and each piece is assembled by hand in the studio under Isabella's supervision. Isabella prefers to run a small-scale studio: collaboration and interchange ensure that everyone has a role in everything, creating a strong, close-knit team. For Isabella, this hands-on method is equally effective for small and large projects, both production pieces and custom projects. Although Isabella has deliberately chosen not to have a large company, her studio has the skills and experience to realise projects of various sizes, including large site-specific commissions. Isabella Garbagnati’s studio executes projects at many scales, from customizing existing products to designing one-off, limited-edition pieces and site-specific commissions. 
 
Isabella

Mission

​Since 2015 GISTUDIO creates, designs and manufactures limited edition lamps and furniture also made to order.

Light, objects and their details, become an expression of a continuous movement between past and present. It is the search and discovery of things from the past to filter them through the lens of contemporaneity that unites the language of each piece

The objects and collections are numbered, punched and signed by the artist. When you are looking for a piece to furnish a space, you always look for something that has its own identity but reflects the language that you recognise and that belongs to you. Recognising familiarity in furniture is the way to create a personal and therefore cosy environment. The creations I make are furniture-light solutions tailored to your space. They all share the same narrative, a bridge between the past and the present where structure is aesthetics and functionality also becomes beauty intertwined with uniqueness.

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Isabella Garbagnati is an Italian-born designer who lives and works between Milan and Paris. After receiving a degree as an architect at Politecnico in Milan she worked with several interior design and decorating firms in Paris (2010-2017). She worked for Jean Nouvel's atelier at the project of interior for Louvre Abu Dhabi, Carbondale studio and she created a collection for Florence Lopez. Her concept straddles a fine line between architecture and design, finding a flawless balance between solid matter and light. Her works blend the craftsman’s painstaking attention to detail with the artist’s unerring instinct, forming timeless lamps made out of precious and often timeworn materials.

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​​Always attracted by materials, one day Isabella experienced a jolt that set her on an exciting new path: her gaze was drawn to a 1920s lamp by the French designer Jacques Le Chevallier in a gallery on rue de Seine, and she decided to reproduce it. Then came the serendipitous discovery of an archive of long-forgotten materials in the 3rd Arrondissement: old resins, leftover polymers and much more. A storehouse chock-full of materials that were gathering dust, including translucent fibreglass sheeting oxidised by the passing of time. Isabella ingeniously gave these materials a new lease of life... Her research and painstaking attention to detail are the mainstays, the very foundations underpinning her designs.

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She has participated in 3 editions of the salone del mobile presenting her collections selected by galleries and collectors.

Isabella was part of several events organized by Dimoregallery in Milan and London during LDF with Mint gallery.

Her lighting  and furniture pieces blend history and contemporaneity, have attracted the attention of important collectors and are highly appreciated in the world of design and art. 

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Today Isabella lives and works in Milan. Isabella makes unique light sculpture pieces for private clients in Italy to worldwide and creates exclusive collections for major galleries such as: DIMOREGALLERY Milano , MINT in London , BLEND Rome

EXHIBITIONS 

  • LDF London editions 2022 - 2023 - 2024

  • Flowers in Winter with DIMOREGALLERY Milan 2022 

  • Nomad Circle exhibition with DIMOREGALLERY St.Moritz 2022

  • Furniture fair edition 2021

  • Fil Noir exhibition with DIMOREGALLERY SEPTEMBER 2020 Via Solferino 11 Milan

  • Furniture fair edition 2019 - Milan satellite showroom, presentation of Odeon collection

  • Furniture fair edition 2018 - Milan satellite showroom, presentation of Le luminiere collection

 

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ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, MENTIONS

  • DENTRO CASA interview by Stefania Vitale and Rita Baiguerra January 2023

  • AD Italy October 2022

  • AD Russia September 2022 

  • Marie Claire Maison best 50 designers April 2021

  • AD France March/April 2020 N159 interview

  • Elle DecorSpain quote

  • Elle Decor Italy selected Rideau Table ‘ best of design 2020 ’

  • AD Germany - Trends 2020

  • DENTRO CASA interview by Giovanni Tommasini July 2018

 

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