Geometry with a conscience
- Lado creates furntiure with wood, metal and stone
- He pays close attention to the context of his furniture
- His works span furniture, interiors and installations
Lado Lomitashvili makes sculptural furniture and site-specific installations that reject ornament in favour of proportion and quality of wood, iron and mineral matter. "Design is both discipline and discovery," he explains. Trained first as an architect in Tbilisi and later in contextual design in Eindhoven, Lado founded Studio Gypsandconcrete in 2020. He uses his imagination to transforms the language of architecture into objects, spaces and installations with precision. "I create narratives through geometry. I choose materials that carry memories and use them to make objects shaped by context. Space plays a big role in my work, which is why I consider them to be contextual," he says.
Interview
- How do you define your aesthetic language?
- I would define it as site-sensitive and materially intuitive. It is balanced between poetic restraint and structural clarity. My process starts with observing proportion, atmosphere and how materials respond to space.
- Which materials speak loudest in your hands?
- Each material dictates its own rhythm. Wood invites balance and proportion, metal enforces control and stone defines weight and stillness. I work with their behaviour, not against it. I let process and material find their own dialogue.
- What makes a design contextual for you?
- Designs are contextual when they do not impose themselves but reveal what already exists in an amplified, reimagined and more tangible fashion. For me, context begins with asking why something should exist and letting that question shape its form and purpose.
- Where do art, product and interior meet?
- They meet in continuity, where art gives spirit, design gives form and space gives meaning. A bench, a shelf or an interior are variations of one idea shaped by proportion, and a dialogue between form and feeling.
Lado Lomitashvili is an expert artisan: he began his career in 2015
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