MM Lampadari spotlights the Poliform Lab

Italian design company, Poliform, showcases their new design cradle, the Poliform Lab in Brianza, Italy. The lab is not an avenue that creates furniture design products but simply a place where ideas are manufactured. The space is filled with objects that cultivate a creative atmosphere that is defined by the brand’s unique aesthetic.

Designed by Italian architect and designer, Carlo Colombo, the Poliform Lab is a hub for the design studio’s marketing, showroom design, visual merchandising, photography and web design activity. The lab acts as a window into Poliform’s world, allowing clients, architects, resellers, employees, furniture designers and more to get a comprehensive understanding about the acclaimed furnishing brand. Within the lab, MM Lampadari’s iconic single stem Arch pendant lights have been used to decorate Poliform’s new exhibition on display.

MM Lampadari has been defining modern Italian lighting for more than half a century. Their meticulous attention to details ensures that their objects stand out for their sleek appearance and meticulous product design. The Arch collection, from which the lab has used the Arch pendant lights was designed in 2018 by Sicilian designer Matteo Valenti. Valenti’s approach with the arch lights works with the metal beams that bend ever so slightly as if they are threatened by the burden of the glowing orbs on both ends. Though the lighting collection offers a series of chandeliers and wall fixtures, the Arch pendant lights stand out with their clean edges and a narrow metal stem rappelling down from the ceiling. At the end of the metal stem, a glowing orb made from opaque glass illuminates the room.

The lab is the seventh building erected by the Italian furniture design studio in their hometown, Brianza. Spanning over an area of 13,000 square metres, the entire building structure is solar-powered, with studios for design and photography, showrooms, the Poliform lab as well as the Poliform Café, a restaurant that explores the philosophy of the brand through a completely different sensory medium, food.