Independent industrial design — furniture, lighting, space

Daniel Palla

Objects with another possibility.

Furniture, lighting and spatial objects by Daniel Palla. Exploring movement, materials and the ways we inhabit space.

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01 · BES Chair · Prototype

Selected work

6 projects

BES Chair

Furniture · Prototype · 2007

A task chair whose plywood shell is its face, with recycled leather cushioning held inside it and a synchro mechanism doing the work underneath.

Ocean desk

Furniture · Concept · 2000

A desk developed at the request of Guialmi, built around a curved panel beneath the top and a glass surface that slides out to one side.

Coffee machine with a curved wood surround, a glass sphere and a brass-toned block

Alchimia

Objects · Prototype · 1998

A coffee machine built on the four classical elements — fire, wood, water and air — with the heat itself moving the water through a visible glass vessel.

Material and process

The mechanism can become the character of an object.

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Image placement — in developmentMacro of a material surface — weave, grain or machined edge · photography

Image placement — in developmentWorking sketch of a mechanism, pen on paper, annotated · sketch

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