Ludovica Corti

Ludovica Corti was born in Lecco in 1996 and lives between Milan, Tuscany and Lake Como. A product designer, she describes her practice as playing with forms and interacting primitively with materials, influenced by micronature and stimulated by everything she meets, so that objects tend to behave like specimens rather than finished furniture.

That vocabulary runs through the titles of her series, drawn from zoology and botany, chrysalis, casing, tegument, puparium, ovum, ootheca, pericarp, bract, kernel and endosperm, and through coded families marked M, PLS, T, C and L, alongside pieces named Carne and Má. Her atelier, called Sottotetto, is in Abbadia Lariana on Lake Como, a space looking down on the water and up to the Grignetta that she describes as the home of her works.