Marco Ripa

Marco Ripa is a craftsman and designer who works iron and steel, and the founder of RIPA, a contemporary brand based in Porto San Giorgio, in the Marche, making sculptural steel furniture and objects. He has worked with iron since the age of fifteen and, after his studies, devoted himself entirely to his workshop, choosing iron for its capacity to last and change over time.

RIPA is a creative workshop where metal becomes a language and surfaces come alive: each piece results from the meeting of craftsmanship and experimentation, with an essential, solid aesthetic conceived to resist passing fashions. The research explores the balance between form and function, with references from Calder, for equilibrium in metal, to Ruskin and the Arts and Crafts movement. The catalogue includes the Coimbra armchair and the Chiodo and Triangolo tables.