LANUDA Collection

Riccardo Blumer, 2025

With Lanuda, Riccardo Blumer evolves his design research on seats, moving from the wood of Laleggera (1996) to aluminium.
Should Laleggera and Lanuda embody the same principle of essential subtraction it is with Lanuda that this research reaches its extreme limit.
The seat takes shape from ten aluminium sheets with a thickness of just 2 mm, which undergo a process of laser cutting and drilling to the maximum possible limit, reducing the surface area to a minimum and making the seat, in fact, nude (in Italian “La nuda” means “The nude”).
The result is a stackable chair characterised by a rich and complex design. A special processing of aluminium creates a series of triangulations with structural membranes that are folded and secured by mechanical rivets.

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LANUDA

Lanuda is available in total black, a colour choice that emphasises the graphic nature of its essential lines and the strong character of its design. With this project, Alias confirms its commitment to experimentation and innovation, a journey already established by the success of Laleggera, consistently in production since 1996.

‘If Laleggera and Lanuda share the same tension towards essential subtraction - the former through minimal thicknesses of wood in a box structure, the latter with sheets of aluminium worked according to a reticular logic - with Lanuda this research reaches its extreme limit in the balance between technique, industry and beauty. The 2 mm aluminium foil is cut and perforated to the maximum limit, reducing the surface until it becomes, in fact, naked.’ Riccardo Blumer

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Riccardo Blumer

He was born in Bergamo in 1959 and graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He has been working on projects for buildings, houses and interior decoration and took part in competitions in France and Switzerland. In 1996 he designed Laleggera for Alias, which won the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award in 1998, and in 2000 also designed the table collection Ilvolo. Since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and since 2006 also at the University of the Republic of San Marino and ISAI in Vicenza. Together with Matteo Borghi he designed the table Ilvolo, the Ghisa bench (2008) and Dinamica stool (2010) for Alias. He lives and works in Varese.

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