TIPSTUDIO is Imma Matera and Tommaso Lucarini, a Florentine based duo driven by a material research with a more poetic process to investigate and explore new universes.
They are determined to transform any idea into a narrative project to catch emotions.
They believe that through in-depth research of processes and territories they can create simple and unique objects.The form is just the shape of the process. It becomes the output of a path of experimentation on material and immaterial values trying to interpret the design of today.
Their works come from the blending of anthropological aspects, conceptual analysis and territories in a continuous intertwining between the poetry of Matera with the materiality of Pietrasanta.
Both graduated in design at La Sapienza in Rome and ISIA Firenze respectively, they met in 2017 after their studies. A shared vision, their complementary and a good complicity bring them together. Currently TIPSTUDIO works across different disciplines, companies and artisans to create new products, unique pieces and concepts in a continuous journey.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022/
/ Living with Scents, Curated by Elisabetta Pisu and Clara Muller, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, US
2021
/ Edit Napoli, Fog vases for Artieri 1895, Naples, IT
/ 3Designer, Spin OFF Officine Fratti, Perugia, IT
/ Dubai Opera, Unity in Diversity Curated by Khawla Art & Cultural Foundation, Dubai, UAE
/ Lake Como Design Festival, History Repeating, Como, IT
/ 3CO DESIGN, Curated by Silvana Annichiarico and powerd by Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Doha Design District, Doha, QAT
/ Materia Design Festival, Transizioni materiche, Catanzaro, IT
/ Alcova Fuorisalone 2021, Secondo Fuoco exhibition, Milan, IT
/ Il Nuovo Design Italiano, Curated by Elisabetta Pisu and powerd by IMF Foundation, COD - Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana, AL
/ Fucina Madre, by APT Basilicata, Complesso delle Monacelle / Chiesa del Carmine Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera, IT
/ 3CO DESIGN, Curated by Silvana Annichiarico and powerd by Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Italian Institute of Culture in Prague, CZ
/ Present Continuous by Nèo Design Italiano, 5VIE, Milan, IT
2020
/ Edit Napoli, Curator Domitilla Dardi, Emilia Petruccelli.
Complesso Monumentale del San Domenico, Naples, IT
/ Materia sospesa, digital exhibition curated by Antonio Aricò
2019
/ Spotted, curated by Federica Sala at Riviera, Milan, IT
/ Materia design Festival, Catanzaro Design week, Catanzaro, IT
/ Più Gusto al Design, Fuorisalone Milan Design week, Milan, IT
2018
/ PNA design section Finalist exhibition, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, IT
/ Calabria Souvenir, Catanzaro Design week, Catanzaro, IT
/ Fuori Salone, Gobbetto Showroom, Milan, IT
/ Lovely Waste, Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Milan, IT
2017
/ Materia design Festival, Catanzaro Design week, Catanzaro, IT
/ Homo Faber, Pietrasanta, IT
WHAT WE DO
Products
Custom furniture
Art direction
Exhibition design
Interior
Graphic