Collection: Mandalaki Studio
Mandalaki is a product and consulting design firm founded in 2012 by Enrico De Lotto, George Kolliopoulos, and Giovanni Senin in Milan, Italy. Davide Giovannardi became a partner in 2013. The team has diverse educational backgrounds in Product Design, Economics, and Art. Mandalaki explores the intersection between design and technology to create unique pieces of high quality and conceptual value as a result of their consistent innovative approach between industrial and artisanal processes. Extremely pure shapes conceal years of meticulous technical and aesthetic research that characterize their iconic and recognizable products, architectures, and art pieces. Each project is connected to one another: from modular micro houses to electric cars, from lighting installations to furniture. The projects are driven by the research of essentiality and functionality as well as sustainability and performance.
In recent years, Mandalaki has focused on an extended research of the nature of lighting which has led to the creation of the Halo Project. The intention is no longer to perceive light as a source of illumination but as a precise and defined graphic projection. A union is then established between both entities: the physical object and the metaphysical projection. The result is a new family of lamps designed for different landscapes, capable of creating worlds of nuance in which people can immerse themselves as a source of new energy. In 2018 Mandalaki designed Monocabin Prefab, a tiny house, to explore the intimate space of the individual. The architecture was conceived as a livable design object while promoting a democratic and unique vision. The result is a miniature modular house with the first prototype built in Rhodes and available to visit in order to discover this experience offered by the design studio. Today, Monocabin presents three different sizes of a highly smart, functional, and eco-friendly prefab house which can be placed anywhere around the world. Mandalaki strongly believes in an interdisciplinary approach to bring value to their works and empower their networks from artists to scientists.
Mandalaki has exhibited its works worldwide at leading galleries, fairs, and institutions including: Stockholm Furniture Fair, (Stockholm, Sweden 2013), ICFF Award (NYC, USA 2014), Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (Connecticut, USA 2015), Hong Kong Electronic Show (HK 2016), CES Las Vegas (USA 2017), Rossana Orlandi (Milano, MDW 2018), Matadero, Centro de creación contemporánea (Madrid, 2019) Observatoire Le Marais (Paris, 2019), Daimaru (Osaka, Japan 2019)
