Introducing Furniture Designer Lucas Recchia
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Lucas Recchia, hailing from an island in southern Brazil and born in 1992, embarked on his design career in 2018 with his inaugural solo exhibition at São Paulo's cutting-edge gallery, Firma Casa. Swiftly capturing the nation's attention, he emerged as Brazil's pioneering designer in integrating glass techniques into furniture design. Recchia adeptly merges the potential of recycled glass with age-old artisanal techniques, harnessing solar energy and drawing from global craftsmanship expertise.
Lucas operates from his atelier situated in downtown São Paulo, collaborating with a team of local artisans to bring his new projects to life.
INSTAGRAM: @lucas.recchia
Words: designeers
September 2018
designeers
Describe what you do:
lucas
I design furniture incorporating traditional materials such as glass, bronze, aluminium and Brazilian stones.
designeers
What is one Lucas Recchia product that one must have?
lucas
I have a thing for the bulle table, the artisanal way in which the glass is worked awakens sensations of softness and a desire to touch the piece that are not common characteristics of this material.
designeers
What is the most difficult project you have worked on?
lucas
Certainly the Material Distortion collection, which is the last collection I released. It took me over a year to develop the collection, which mixes glass casting and bronze casting techniques and requires a high degree of complexity to complete the pieces.
designeers
What do you do when you are not in the studio:
lucas
I'm lucky enough to have a job that I don't see as work, which is perhaps why my personal life and my work life blend together. I'm very interested in visual arts, getting to know new countries and having contact with nature, but in a way these are sources of inspiration for the creation of my pieces.
“I'm very interested in visual arts, getting to know new countries and having contact with nature.”
lucas recchia
designeers
3 suppliers or designers you'd love to work with?
lucas
I would love to work with Venini, I believe they have techniques that could result in incredible work. But in general, I look for old techniques and small artisans who pass on their knowledge from generation to generation to create new pieces with my language. I also want to collaborate with other designers, such as fashion designers, but it hasn't happened yet.
designeers
Favourite hotel in the world:
lucas
Aman hotels, I love the way they use design as a metric in all the hotels in the chain.
