Laurids Gallée

Laurids Gallée runs a design practice in Rotterdam making furniture, lighting and objects in which material comes before function. The studio describes its process as a mandatory playfulness and works by merging craft with contemporary manufacturing techniques: polymer resin cast or milled into volumes, solid cherry and pine, aluminium, and LED elements integrated into the mass rather than hidden behind it.

Surfaces are treated with pigments, inks and airbrushed lacquer, so one piece can carry several manufacturing languages at once. The work moves between galleries and luxury houses — the solo exhibition Lima Charlie in 2026, veneered panels for Hermès in Vienna in 2025, objects for Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci — and the Cairn, Array and PL series apply the same logic to lighting, where the resin body holds the light source.