Hello! We are Næssi, a design studio based in Rome
Collectible / Art, Design
UNDATED table collection, Naessi x Movimento Gallery
The conflict between the contemporary and the classical, typical of Rome, generates a constant methodological and formal dialectic around which we develop many of our projects. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
TESTAE, vases born from fragments
We live in Rome and, while walking through the neighborhood of the same name, we often pass by Monte Testaccio, also known as Monte dei Cocci. It’s an artificial hill, about 55 meters high and a kilometer in circumference, built from fragments of amphorae once used to transport goods and unloaded at the nearby river port of Testaccio. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
FÒLIA Ceramics Collection. Næssi x SOTA
“We created a set that evokes a recurring space in the city of Rome: the place where disconnected architectural fragments interact with the ground from which spontaneous herbs and plants grow. A photograph of the moment in which the city welcomes the fragment and uses it to create new scenarios and unexpected composite architectures. What we describe is the state of impermanence of the architecture of this city, but also the necessary impermanence of the research we carry out.” - Naessi -
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Retail / Product and Interior Design
SANTO PALATO. Contemporary Trattoria in Roma
For Santo Palato, the vital starting point was the meeting with the chef and owner, Sarah Cicolini. With her we establish a long, proficient discourse about food, design and how their interconnection can bring unexpected results from many points of view. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
FÒLIA, exercises in lightness
[…] In this design we played freely with the undulating surface of FOLIA. The result is an abstract composition that contains input for possible new product types but defines none specifically. The undulating surfaces flank each other by tangency and overlap like the light leaves of a plant growing in search of light and air. […] open
Retail / Product and Interior Design
B!POD. Paris Marais temporary store
B!POD is a brand created to find simple solutions to complex problems and focused on the three pillars of sustainability. Science and design. The brand aims to advance sustainable development by improving integration between the planet and its inhabitants. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
FÒLIA Collection. Returning the natural wood to the organic form from which it originates
The plant world is full of light and apparently fragile three-dimensional surfaces. FÒLIA, the research, stems from the desire to bring wood, a natural material, back to the organic form from which it comes. By merging traditional cabinetry processes with contemporary transformation methods such as thermoforming, we have obtained wavy surfaces in maple briar with a glossy finish. This is the basic material for the development of the first outputs of the FÒLIA Collection: two occasional tables and a console. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
NEXUM Tables collection: individual fragments creating a whole
Nexum is born to celebrate the ancestral function linked to the need for a table: the need to share, where sociality features as the fil rouge that connects dining companions, and the matter of which the object is composed. […] open
Furniture / Art, Design
INBETWEEN, a threshold that serves two functions: to display and to contain. Næssi x FENIX®
INBETWEEN is a threshold, an element that marks the passage between external space and internal space, between public space and intimate space.
We started from the furnishings designed for the entrances of historic homes, those rooms that acted as a filter between the city and the house. […] open
Retail / Visual Design, Product and Interior Design
Espressoh. A store made of light, coffee and some of the Milanese things we love
Espressoh opens its first flagship store in Milan, a project with an essential design that brings the classic Italian coffee shop towards a contemporary dimension with rituals and an easy approach typical of our reference model. Located in the Cinque Giornate area with a Ceppo di Gré marble facade, the store, thanks to the five windows facing the street, has a continuous and direct relationship with the city. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
UNDATED Seating Collection: beyond the conflict between classic and contemporary
Welcoming the ancient in the contemporary and shaping memory through current gestures.
In our research the conflict between the contemporary and the classic generates a continuous methodological and formal dialectic. UNDATED is a solid wood seat conceived as a neoclassical sculpture action […] open
Exhibition / Art Direction, Product and Interior Design
CUT COPY PASTE: an installation event at Cantiere Galli Design in Rome
“Incontro” is a format created by Cantiere Galli Design with the aim of opening a space of collaboration and dialogue between the worlds of design and hospitality. Designers and brands in fact are tasked with crafting unique furnishings for situations in need, with a primary focus on hospitality. The furnitures are donated to the Community of Sant’Egidio, supporting the “Viva gli Anziani” program in Trastevere, Rome. […] open
Food / Packaging Design, Specialty Coffee
NUDO ARTISAN COFFEE packaging. A container that tells the content (without showing it)
We designed a pack that is branded and authoritative for the target sector but distinguished by handcrafted human intervention. This makes each pack unique and conveys the non-seriality of the coffee production process in it. […] open
Accessories / Product Design, Vases
TRAME vases. Næssi x Ichendorf Milano
TRAME is a collection of transparent borosilicate glass vases dedicated to the art of floral design and inspired by the Japanese technique of ikebana in which cut flowers are positioned inside a container with a dynamic balance thanks to its techniques and rules. […] open
Furniture / Collectible Design
VARIAZIONI Tables collection. Wood aesthetics drawn by light
VARIAZIONI is a collection of tables with archetypal shape, bold proportions and inlaid top. The surface of the top, decorated with "tone on tone" inlays - "essence on essence" - celebrates the aesthetic versatility of a natural material such as wood: each portion of the fiber, rotated a few degrees with respect to the basic orientation, absorbs the light and returns it with chromatic vibrations, depth effects and unexpected geometric signs. […] open
Furniture / Collectible Design
OCT20. Næssi x FEDRIGONI 366
Fedrigoni UK, each year, produces the 365 book in which a group of creative people active in Britain creatively experiment with Fedrigoni papers and innovative printing techniques.
In 2024, in addition to the British creatives, 10 Italian studios (including ours) were selected to participate with their artwork in the creation of the new volume, 366. Each studio was assigned a day of the year; we worked on October 20. […] open
Accessories / Product Design
OTIUM coffee pot. Næssi x Ichendorf Milano
OTIUM represents a mental approach distant from everyday life and its worries. This is not the contemporary concept of idleness that is associated with rest and laziness, but refers to an essential time for spiritual, mental and creative needs, just like in Ancient Rome. […] open
Accessories / Product Design
CONVERSO Wine decanter. Næssi x Ichendorf Milano
CONVERSO is a glass wine decanter designed for Ichendorf Milano.
Converso is based on the concept of conversation, exchange and therefore transformation. The wine, poured inside, collides with the transversal elements, then it undergoes a process of oxygenation that changes its composition, ennobling the original drink. […] open
Research / Art, Design
SŬPERPŌNO. An ongoing manifesto
SŬPERPŌNO is a superfetation.
SŬPERPŌNO is a stratification.
SŬPERPŌNO is the feeling of being confused.
SŬPERPŌNO is a project.
SŬPERPŌNO is a metaphor.
SŬPERPŌNO is an experience.
SŬPERPŌNO is an encounter.
SŬPERPŌNO is a crossover.
SŬPERPŌNO is a tool.
SŬPERPŌNO is a method.
SŬPERPŌNO is a container.
SŬPERPŌNO is an ongoing manifesto.
SŬPERPŌNO is an activator
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Collectible / Art, Design
RE-TRO-PEN-SIÈ-RI, side tables. Næssi x Retrobottega
An afterthought (retropensiero, in italian) is a hidden thought that is not made explicit but that has the power to influence actions, just like an object designed for a precise function and therefore not for decorative purposes. That object is an essential presence but it is not necessarily the protagonist of the space. […] open
Collectible / Art, Design
ORGANICA vases. Investigating the collaborative relationships between shape and surface, between inflorescence and petal
ORGANICA was born from the shape of a body that wraps a bundle of freshly picked branches. That same shape that the paper sheet of a bouquet assumes by embracing fresh flowers. […] open
Fashion, Lifestyle / Art Direction, Design
VOODOOJEWELS. About imperfection, uniqueness and beauty
Voodoojewels is a jewelry brand inspired by imperfection as the key to uniqueness and therefore by a contemporary concept of natural and authentic beauty.
We designed the new image of the brand and accompanied Voodoojewels in the evolutionary change of its project ten years after its foundation. […] open
Hospitality, Lifestyle / Art Direction, Design
VUOTOPIENO. Stay Rest Discover Connect
VUOTOPIENO is a collection of private home accommodations available for short-term rentals. Guests that choose to stay at a VUOTOPIENO property will find themselves surrounded by inspiring, familiar environments, where anything from the architectural touches to the selection of the furniture, the decor to the accessories—but also, as importantly, the range of experiences made available to them— has been devised to lift the spirit and stir the soul. […] open
Stationery / Creative consulting, Visual Design, Color consulting, Set design
STILO & STILE. Being flashbacks and flash forwards at the same time
At Næssi we have accompanied the brand towards change in evolutionary terms: from a small local project to an international brand capable of contributing to the sector with the development of limited edition branded products.
For Stilo&Stile we have done a path of mentoring, creative consulting, visual design, color consulting and set design. […] open
Stationery / Product Design
NÆSSI WEEKLY PLANNER. Redesign of an office classic
In creative projects time is seen as a source of anxiety and as a physical limit to ideas' natural development. At Naessi we think that time is a geometric space in which to organize commitments but it’s also an organic fluid and circular space in which to identify unexpected connections, create transversal systems and encourage enterprising conceptual pathways. […] open
Education / Workshop
IED Factory 2022. I Miss You: between presence and absence
[…] We opened a conversation with the students of the IED Factory on the antithetical and reciprocal relationship between fullness and emptiness, between what I choose to show and what I hide, a dialectical relationship between presence and absence.[…] open
Collectible / Art, Design
INSIEME, atemporal hybrid spaces
In INSIEME (in Italian, “together”) the relationship between humans and the animal world is described through the inhabited places that are visual diagrams of the coexistence of the two natures. A shared space in which humans and animals are represented by forces that act independently according to different and non-hierarchical logics. […] open
Fashion, Lifestyle / Art Direction, Design
BILULU. Handcrafted clothing reconnecting tradition, nature and lifestyle
BILULU fosters sustainability through its garments, which embody an informed respect for the environment, a collaborative relationship with the cyclical nature of natural processes, and, last but not least, a symbiotic relationship with the raw materials from which they are made. […] open
Retail / Creative consultancy, Interior Design
LAUTERI. About beauty, hospitality and design issues
Lauteri shop is located in the historic center of Terni, Umbria region. Our design choices are inspired by the painterly qualities of Umbrian cities and the strong but simple geometric forms of local Brutalist architecture. Metal, an evocative material for the local industry, and travertine, native marble from central Italy, are wrapped in a single deep color that describes all the shapes and connects every element with space in a dynamic two-tone conversation. […] open
