Lisa Allegra is an artist who designs, draws, and shapes everyday objects. She approaches form through drawing, but also through materials. This enables her to imagine a variety of pieces, from lamps to dining tables and architectural elements. Her creations are conceived as collections. These families of objects play with balance: pillars rising from the ground, a cushion suspended in mid-air, a large dome resting on slender legs. The elements touch, lean on, and support each other. She is sensitive to “the presence of absence”, of emptiness or of a counter-form. John Pawson, Donald Judd and Rachel Whiteread are among the artists who inspired her in their search for the essential and the pure. Clay is Lisa’s favorite material because it has the intrinsic power to be shaped by hand into an infinitely small or infinitely large object. She seeks to create forms that are both minimalist and warm, using earthy materials, rounded shapes and associations with other materials such as textiles and wood. She incorporates weaving, upholstery and carpentry to create objects that reflect her ideas and designs. This choice to correlate her work as a designer with all these skills means that she is able to produce small series of handmade, long-lasting objects, for which she masters both design and manufacture.

She graduated in 2010 from the École des Arts Décoratifs in France. After working in various design studios in Paris, she joined the visual merchandising team of the brand Diptyque Paris. She was in charge of all of the creation of boutiques windows worldwide. She moved to Barcelona in 2017 and founded her own design studio in 2021 to develop her lamp and furniture collections.

“I’ve always been interested in the combination of solidity and roundness. The balance between the raw appearance of a material that is curved and invites us to use it. Its arched shape adds an architectural dimension that makes it an immutable object.”