Forma Rosa Studio presents Coexist, a solo exhibition during Milan Design Week 2025. Searching for resilience in a time of uncertainty, Coexist transforms an underground bunker where biomorphic ceramic lighting sculptures act as nature itself, reclaiming a manufactured space with organic forms and luminous glow. These installations embody the symbiotic cycle between human creation and natural regrowth, revealing how designed light can mimic nature's persistent ability to transform rigid structures.
The New York-based Forma Rosa Studio led by Maria Castillo and Santiago Braby Brown will present a new series of architectural lighting pieces, whose processes marry an unusual combination of advanced coding, slip casting, and ceramic glaze work techniques. The extension of their Botryoidal and Wave collections into large scale sculptural lighting and decorative pendants is a result of the studio’s ongoing exploration in crafting nature, a contemplation on how our objects and spaces coexist with our natural surroundings.
Through this dialogue of man-made and natural elements, Coexist illuminates the tension between permanence and growth, urging a reflection on how design for domestic interiors can harmonize with, rather than dominate, the rhythms of the living world.
| Hours | Press PreviewSunday April 6th; 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM; Public Show; April 7-13 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Venue | Villa Bagatti Valsecchi |
| Type | Exhibition |
| Duration | 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| City | Milan |
About
Forma Rosa Studio
Forma Rosa Studio, a Brooklyn-based design studio co-founded by Maria Teresa Castillo and Santiago Braby Brown, in recent years have gained recognition in major publications for their forward thinking approach to collectible design merging digital design with hand craft. Inspired by technology, art, and natural phenomena, the studio's limited edition functional pieces, furniture and lighting, aim to connect us with our natural roots. The studio's innovative practice involves a cultural dialogue between handmade and digitally designed pieces, which results in a distinctive aesthetic that sets them apart from other designers. By returning to handcraft from a place of technology, the duo creates naturally complex shapes that are digitally grown in New York City and then handcrafted by artisans in Peru. Both of their collections, “The Wave Form” and the “Botryoidal” are digitally grown through coding, following a fractal-like pattern similar to nature and then materialized in experimental, handcrafted ceramics, to the function of lighting design and furniture. Each piece has its own character and finish featuring custom crystal glazes which perform in their own special ways during their firing process. These glazes accentuate the bubbly and wavy patterns, with folds capturing deeper crystal hues or textures and convexities showing smoother moments of color. After showcasing at Alcova Milan 2023, and Alcova Miami 2023 the studio continues to expand its presence in global design events with a new body of work being introduced at Alcova during Milan Design Week 2025. In 2022, Forma Rosa Studio unveiled its first line of collectible lighting design at WantedDesign Lookbook Manhattan and at "This is America" exhibit at Alcova during Milan Design Week. The duo has also recently started a partnership with Love House NY, and Galerie.5 in Singapore as well as the International Galerie Philia. As an emerging design studio, Forma Rosa Studio continues to create contemporary, distinctive pieces that embody the visionaries of American, and global, contemporary design.
