Lanzavecchia + Wai

Lanzavecchia + Wai is the creative partnership of Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai, a design studio founded in 2010 and based between Italy and Singapore. The two met at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where both obtained masters degrees; Wai studied industrial design at the National University of Singapore, while Lanzavecchia took her BA in Product Design at Politecnico di Milano.

The studio approaches design as a research journey, acting as researchers, engineers, craftsmen and storytellers at once. Work ranges from design research for Herman Miller and furniture for Zanotta and Trussardi Casa to exhibition design for La Triennale di Milano, vases for MAR Ravenna and window installations for Hermès, with the two backgrounds feeding each other to fuel lateral thinking.