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.
AboutLANUDA
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
