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Striving for Exquisite Craftsmanship, Showcasing Innovative Thinking – LAGO
Space reflects life taste. When people contemplate the composition of a canvas, besides being moved to collect it, they can’t help but think about how to make the overall picture harmonious and enduring. "Less is more" is a contemporary concept often heard, as most modern people tend to pursue a pure quality of life. In the living room, placing a few pieces of furniture with clean and sharp lines and leaving adequate blank space allows people and light to linger, interact, and change within the space. This creates a transparent environment that brings peace and tranquility to the mind. A simple and minimalist environment can provide comfort and ease. By selecting a few unique personalized furniture and decorative elements, it can embody the home's unrestrained feelings and express a fashionable and avant-garde attitude, creating an artistic environment within the space. For those who pay attention to texture and taste in life, home is not just a place to live; it is also about the atmosphere created by design and furniture arrangement.
New Perspectives - Introducing LAGO to Inject New Energy into Interiors
For the past 10 years, Taiwan's WOW Furniture has been dedicated to exploring more European designer brands with potential, aiming to bring these high-quality and rare designs into the local market, providing customers with a richer and more diverse selection of soft furnishings. Among many European imported brands, the Italian brand LAGO stands out with its broad vision, viewing design as a scientific experiment. LAGO uses innovative ideas to create unique and timeless furniture, expressing the ability to communicate with the environment through modularity and architectural vocabulary. This design philosophy deeply attracts WOW Furniture's Executive Director, Chris, and aligns with the brand's original business philosophy, prompting collaboration to enhance the quality of indoor living for the people and infuse new energy into every household.
"Balance is at the core of everything, including people, nature, and technology. This is what design means to us." — Daniele Lago, CEO and Chief Designer
Whenever one is in a space filled with design sense, it always makes one want to bring that beauty into their home. However, the key to making a space feel livable yet uniquely stylish lies in how to integrate design into life, creating scenarios where everything interacts and balances elegantly. Since modern homes value the natural transparency of spaces, LAGO transforms furniture into the soul of the space. Through exquisite craftsmanship, glass is combined with various other materials, giving each piece of furniture an innovative and bold form, replacing the boundaries in open spaces. This makes the space more flexible and transparent, combining modular design and customization services, allowing residents to express their personality through materials and colors, thus outlining the unique features of each space.
Blurring Space Boundaries to Enhance Indoor Transparency
LAGO’s deep aesthetic roots trace back to the late 19th century when founder Policarpo Lago, a cabinetmaker, crafted exquisite woodwork for noble villas and Venetian churches, laying the foundation for the brand's craftsmanship. LAGO has since expanded this woodworking tradition to produce a series of furniture for bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways, meeting various home space needs and enhancing the elegance of spaces. Since the fourth generation took over, 2006 marked a milestone for the brand's key transformation. Through modular and innovative design, LAGO embarked on a new era of growth and broadening horizons, extending Italian lifestyle aesthetics to a wider and more diverse audience.
In recent years, with the innovation of glass technology and the rise of the small home market, glass has often been used in various indoor layouts, enhancing the brightness and transparency of spaces and maintaining the visual connectivity of different areas. Beyond just a building material, LAGO's innovative concepts redefine the relationship between space and fullness. The Air series uses transparent tempered glass as the main support for relatively rigid boards, making the furniture seem to float in the space, overturning the conventional perception of glass's fragility and creating a bold yet light visual conflict, ensuring greater freedom of movement. In an Italian-style space, the Air Shelving bookshelf stands elegantly alone, with various material shelves placed lightly on the tempered glass structure, allowing natural light to penetrate freely, filling every corner of the interior. Positioned in the open living room center, it transforms functionality into a volumetric element that divides spaces, allowing the space to breathe. The Air series is omnipresent, with sofas, TV cabinets, coffee tables, and even bed frames featuring invisible glass bases. The overall design, with clean and sleek lines, alters the visual surprise of lightness and weight contrast.
Exploring Timeless Design and Material's Infinite Possibilities
Apart from tempered glass design, LAGO also has unique insights into material usage, showcasing the beauty of interwoven different materials in each piece of furniture. As a brand rooted in cabinetry craftsmanship, LAGO maintains an uncompromising commitment to traditional craftsmanship, combining technology to develop refined and durable materials. The Air Table/Wildwood rectangular dining table, for instance, contrasts the pure transparency of glass with the warm texture of wood. The Wildwood finish, meticulously processed by craftsmen, retains the deep wood grain of a century-old timber, giving it the feel of solid wood with a naturally artistic surface. A special thermal technology endows the wood with high wear and scratch resistance, ensuring that liquids do not penetrate the finish, making daily maintenance easy. Additionally, the Air series offers X Glass, adding a unique expression to spaces. This finish uses digital printing technology to transfer images onto glass, seamlessly combining the durability of glass to create a smooth, textured surface. It comes in various matte and polished marble surfaces, flexibly adding a sense of tension and luxury to spaces.
LAGO places great emphasis on environmental protection, always choosing high-quality materials in the production process to avoid environmental impact and reduce waste. The paints used in their furniture are water-based, solvent-free, and the panels are non-toxic and formaldehyde-free, ensuring better indoor air quality and a healthy living environment. Each product series by the brand touches the user's sensory experience, creating timeless beauty with simple vocabulary and redefining people's perception of spatial furniture. Focused on the essence and innovation of materials, LAGO combines them in unprecedented ways, such as glass with wood or metal, showcasing the brand's commitment to craftsmanship and originality. This leads to a new revolution in interior design, reinterpreting the taste of art and life, bringing transparent and bright layers, and continuously enhancing the aesthetic realm of spaces through innovation.
