marivi calvo

Blurring the lines of sculpture and utility, LZF’s lighting forms are imaginative and rhythmic. Meet co-founder and creative director of LZF, Mariví Calvo, who has made a career combining artistic and avant-garde methods. Spanish-born Calvo has an eclectic, creative background as an artist. In the early 1990s, while living in Paris, she wrote and developed a surrealist dance performance called...

Designed by Mariví Calvo, Koi is a huge carp made of light and wood, a spectacular light structure, half-lamp, half-sculpture. The inspiration for this wonderful idea came from an interlacing wood system and the transparencies it produced when lit. The system, consisting in the overlaying of wooden slats as if they were fish scales, is called the “Koi Fabric”, and was...

As part of their whistlestop tour through Australia Lzf had promised to unveil for us their newest creations and we are pleased to inform you that big, beautiful things are coming out of the LZF camp in coming months!

IT'S BACK!  YOU-ZU IS HERE AGAIN AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO KICK OFF 2011 THAN TO FEATURE ONE OF OUR LONGEST STANDING FRIENDS AND SUPPLIERS, THE CO-FOUNDER AND DRIVING CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND LZF LAMPS, IT'S PRODUCTS AND THE STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL MARKETING MATERIAL THAT COMPLEMENTS THE LZF STORY SO ELEGANTLY, EVERY TIME. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THEIR STUNNINGLY CREATIVE 2011 DESKTOP...

June 2010 saw some of the best names in the European design community descend on Cairo for +20 Egypt. Curated by Italian design queen: Paola Navone, the event was a showcase of selected products from the best Egyptian design companies, as well as international brands. The final result was ...a fascinating juxtaposition of tradition and innovation, local and international, classic...