Marialaura Irvine

Marialaura Irvine is an Italian architect and designer who runs Studio Irvine in Milan, in Via Vigevano, a practice of thirty years’ standing that she has steered since the death of her husband James Irvine. The studio works on product design, creative direction and architectural spaces, with a particular obsession for materials and surfaces.

Its method, built on simplifying in order to improve, treats design as collective work that begins with the material and runs through production, communication and product strategy. The results range from a chair to a surface, from art direction for manufacturers to interiors, and include Paf Paf for Mattiazzi, a chair designed at Konstantin Grcic’s request that dismantles completely and stacks, made from a single material and conceived so that every part can be separated and returned.