Lualdi wins HKDA GDA 2021 award with Ying collection

Lualdi wins HKDA GDA 2021 award within Silver section, Furniture category, with Ying collection, designed by Steve Leung in 2020.

Yíng beautifully combines world-renowned Italian knowhow with a flawless aesthetic inspired by the timehonoured Chinese legacy, revealing a continuum between tradition and modernity, handcrafting techniques and industrial solutions, design and timeless elegance.

24 JUNE 2022

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

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ETHER: the doorway of the future

Changes in social behavior and habitation patterns, together with technological developments, have led to a new tradition in the appearance of the door as a physical object, transforming it within the context of new values where design becomes the fundamental and mindful interpreter. The door is one of those objects that has endured the longest over time. It is the quintessential intermediary object: able to establish the passage between Architecture and Interior.

ETHER, designed by Marco Piva for Lualdi, is an innovative door system equipped with an advanced door jamb: the vertical block, which accommodates an interface developed by Microdevice, an Italian company specializing in building automation & control systems, is fully incorporated and hidden within the door system.
The design thus becomes the tool that makes it possible to establish the connection with the public, offering an experience that is out of the ordinary.
A vision of the future that combines the know-how of Lualdi with the most advanced technologies, making them the key elements of uniquely designed creations.

The system incorporates an intelligent, highly-customizable interface with multiple commands that is able to evolve and adapt to the needs of the end user: it is configured through a simple data connection.

9 JUNE 2022

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

Discover Ying

ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

  • ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

    The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

    The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

    ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

Finishes and accessories

Marco Piva and Lualdi have developed three versions with three different uses for the launch of ETHER. Each version comes with a package of finishes and accessories designed for a certain function type. The combinations of materials – wood, glass and aluminum – are specific to the different uses of the system.

The iconic combinations reveal a rich and harmonious program of aesthetic and material solutions, as is the custom with Lualdi products.

 

RESIDENTIAL
Door in light oak Thermowood
Door jambs in black aluminum
Vertical block in iron grey glass

WELLNESS
Door in iron grey back lacquered glass
Door jambs in brushed aluminum
Vertical block in black glass

OFFICE
Door in matt calce grey lacquer
Door jambs in brushed aluminum
Vertical block in matt calce grey glass

Photos from the event

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Lualdi at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2022

7-12 June 2022
Hall 5, Booth D11

 

Lualdi is taking part in Milan Design Week 2022 with a stand dedicated to the story of custom-made systems and furnishings and developed in continuity with the Milanese showroom concept.

The space, designed by Piero Lissoni, art director of the brand, becomes the setting for ever new stories. In this context, the partitions serve different functions, giving life to a sequence of environments in a sort of artistic labyrinth.
This choice not only allows the company to set the individual products in a realistic context within the exhibition space in order to demonstrate their functional and aesthetic aspects, but also enables it to experiment with finishes, styles and new combinations, testifying to the ability of the Lualdi products to influence and define synergistically the architecture of the spaces.

1 JUNE 2022

The exhibition layout thus guides the visitors along a path in which a story unfolds, enabling them to interact both physically and emotionally with the space. The storyline is enhanced with two new proposals for the occasion:

 

Teatro – La Bella

Teatro, designed for Lualdi by Andrea Boschetti, is a partition system that perfectly meets the needs of a contract and residential market requiring highly versatile and modular spaces.
With the La Bella version, presented for the Salone del Mobile 2022, the design is enhanced with geometric decorations and plays of solids and voids on the modules in natural wood. The succession of these doors gives rise to compositions that are always different.
La Bella is just one example of the innumerable ways this project can be customized, born as it was to create flexible and contemporary partition solutions that are suitable for the design of a variety of functional areas, from private residences to clubhouses, from executive business environments to entertainment spaces.

 

Skye

Skye is the system of fixed and sliding panels, designed for Lualdi by Piero Lissoni in 2021, which is now presented in a version that is composed entirely of wood, both the profiles and the doors. The system allows for multiple configurations, both in terms of the structure and in the selection of finishes.

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Lualdi at Bam Open Air Design 2022

Lualdi takes part in the second edition of Bam Open Air Design, from 11th to 14th May, with an installation conceived in collaboration with Looking for Art, a start-up founded in Milan in 2019 to showcase emerging under-35 artists.

11 MAY 2022

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

Discover Ying

ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

  • ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

    The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

    The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

    ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

Lualdi is partner of Teatro degli Arcimboldi for the project “Vietato l’ingresso”

Lualdi is a partner of Teatro degli Arcimboldi for the initiative “Vietato l’ingresso”, launched on the occasion of the Supersalone in September 2021 and now in its second edition for the Salone del Mobile 2022 with “Il primo camerino”.

19 SEPTEMBER 2021

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

Discover Ying

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Describing a door 

The Lualdi showroom at Foro Buonaparte 74 in Milan reopens to the public as a new mono-brand space, the result of a restyling project by Piero Lissoni that brings to the fore the very modern and international soul of the company.

The location is the same, the former Olympia Theater, a cherished place for Milan in the early 1900s and one that has now been home to the Lualdi brand for many years.

1 AUGUST 2021

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

Discover Ying

ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

  • ETHER can connect to any control system: all its functions can be monitored remotely and can be controlled 24 hours a day directly from a smartphone.

    The Ether system can also be combined with dry walling specifically designed to integrate with the technology of the product, and can be applied both in newbuilds and in energy efficiency retrofits. For the launch of this collection, this solution is presented in collaboration with Saint-Gobain as technical partner.

    The Saint-Gobain solution integrates ETHER into high-performance thermal and acoustic comfort systems that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

    ETHER is designed to be installed in historical/monumental contexts as a command bar that can be applied to stand-alone walls.

And it is even more so for Lualdi, who have succeeded in reinventing spaces with doors and partition systems, creating new possibilities for interiors. By developing integrated solutions for architectures and conducting research on materials, Lualdi has managed to go beyond the traditional and codified process of door production, making it a unique reality with its own story.

“We felt the need for a space that could represent the company, one capable of bringing out the tradition and values that distinguish all our products – says Alberto Lualdi, CEO. “The goal was to communicate a real lifestyle concept that encapsulates what Lualdi has to offer, one based on that manufacturing flexibility that has always driven the company’s business”. A flexibility that translates into bespoke productions, personalized service and tailor-made solutions that over the years has enabled Lualdi to become a favored partner of architectural firms and allowed it to build a worldwide distribution network. Today, the brand stands out not only in the residential sector, but also in the field of large contract projects.

“We thought of the new showroom as an international showcase for the company’s products and philosophy – says Pierluigi Lualdi, Marketing Director and Head of the Contract Division. More than a space, an itinerary that narrates the Lualdi concept of living to all our stakeholders, with solutions that combine research, technology, craftsmanship and customization”.

The new mono-brand store is in fact part of a broader corporate strategy aimed at creating new spaces in principal cities worldwide, with the purpose of increasing the export share which has stood at around 65 percent over the last three years. “We are examining some locations in Italy and abroad – concludes Pierluigi Lualdi – that could be opened both directly and in partnership with our local distributors in order to consolidate our presence in our key markets of Asia, Russia and America, evaluating the possibility of expansion into new countries”.

And while Lualdi looks to the future in an international context, it also maintains its origins and its connection with Milan, the city to which it is intrinsically linked and to which it owes the origin of its success as Olga Lualdi, the  Communications Manager, explains: “Milan has a strongly symbolic value for the brand because our history as a design company began and developed thanks to the close relationship with those architects who were the driving force behind the city’s reconstruction that began in the 1950s, in particular Luigi Caccia Dominioni, the foremost exponent of that Milanese style that marked the history of design and architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Products such as the LCD62 or the Super door several years later are the perfect symbols of that industrial turning point which over the years has developed and evolved, so determining the company’s entry into the world of design”.

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Welcome, the Philippe Starck collection for Lualdi

It’s called Welcome and it’s the first Lualdi collection by Philippe Starck.

Designed for hotels, the soul of the project consists of a system of accessories – handle, step marker and number, but also a tablet – which comes to life on the door. The door is then transformed into an actual service surface for the hotel guest, and can be used for facial recognition, room heating, welcome, protection and even to send messages.

15 JUNE 2021

“Yíng collection celebrates the Italian welcoming culture through a contemporary design that blends traditional Chinese woodcraft technique with exquisite Italian craftmanship” – Steve Leung

Established in 1972, the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) is the first of its kind in Hong Kong for practicing designers and design administrators, with aims to uphold the status of design practitioners and to encourage the use and the appreciation of quality design in the community.

The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011.

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Philippe Starck comments: “The door is a vital element that I use a lot in my projects. A door is not an object, it is a moment, an action, the beginning of a story. A door is always extraordinary because it unites two sides, two worlds. A door is a mystery, a drama, a work.”

 

 

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