Creations in cardboard
- Angelo designs and crafts lamps and other objects from cardboard
- He is a tireless explorer of new technical solutions
- He is obsessed with engineering and smoothness
Even when he was a bank clerk and a financial promoter, Angelo Lussiana had always been using his manual skills to make things. He started with crafting his own pieces of furniture, then he dedicated himself to creating objects of any kind, until one day he discovered the potential of cardboard. Since then, this self-made artisan never stopped exploring – and finding – new technical solutions to demonstrate that this humble material has great potential. Engineer, designer and craftsman of his pieces, Angelo creates lamps, furniture and other objects witnessing that cardboard can be not just a natural and extremely affordable material, but also a very resistant and reliable one, ideal to express his creativity and technical acumen.
INTERVIEW
I am a self-taught artisan. Our family legend narrates that years ago I had to create reindeer-shaped seat markers for a Christmas lunch, and I tried with cardboard, almost by chance. It worked, so I adopted the material and all the challenges that came with it and made it my job.
Not only there are several technical issues to be solved when creating with cardboard – resistance, function, aesthetics, smoothness – but there are also no sources or masters to learn from. You need to find solutions yourself.
Partly by practicing and experimenting – a lot. The other education was by joining an online forum of makers with cardboard. I immediately became one of the most active members, the one with the “engineer” approach. This experience was vital to me, I learned a lot from them.
I adore investigating and testing new technical solutions. Very often, the starting point to create my objects is just my will to replicate – using cardboard only – mechanisms that I am fascinated by. If I see a challenge, no one can stop me!
