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Milan, Italy
When Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin opened their studio in 2009, they agreed on one rule: every project—whether it becomes a lamp, a chair, or a museum show—has to teach them (and the rest of us) something new about the way things are made. From workshops in Milan and Rotterdam they follow supply chains, sift through archives, and interview factory technicians before sketching a single line.
That detective work has led them in unexpected directions. In Ore Streams they ripped apart old laptops to map the messy after-life of electronics; in Cambio they traced timber from Amazon logging roads to European showrooms. Commercial briefs—lighting for Flos, furniture for Cassina, design strategy for global brands—carry the same curiosity, pairing good-looking forms with footnotes on provenance, energy use, and labour.
Trimarchi and Farresin don’t claim to fix the world, but they are determined to make its workings visible. In doing so, they remind us that design is not just what ends up on the showroom floor—it’s the whole story behind it.
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