Hello and welcome to my website.
I’m a furniture designer working between Brescia, Italy, and Lewes, UK. Trained as a cabinet maker, I design furniture and accessories for design studios, ateliers and private clients, following each piece from concept and technical drawing through to production. Here you’ll find a curated selection of my work, including personal creations and collaborations with Goldfinger Design and Amy Somerville. Explore my portfolio to see how each design reflects a balance of craftsmanship, innovation, and aesthetic vision.
Mattia Angelo Gasparini
Works
The Chasse Coeur chair | Amy Somerville
Medusa reading chair | Amy Somerville
Tate Modern collection | Goldfinger Design
The HVN curved seat | Goldfinger Design
Sylvan collection | Goldfinger Design
Walpole Townhouse meeting table | Goldfinger Design
Solus Ceramics multipurpose table | Goldfinger Design
The Lierre console | Goldfinger Design
The lamp Isydora
The table Clemente
The bedside tables Pegher
The writing desk Christina
The desk Martinha
The interlocking bookshelves
The sideboards
The coffee tables
The Zig-Zag cabinet
The climbing shoe
other works
About
My name is Mattia Angelo Gasparini.
I’m a furniture designer with a background in cabinetmaking, and I love designing objects, pieces of furniture and furnishing accessories.
I mainly use wood because of its tactile characteristics, durability and sustainability, but I am very curious to experiment with other materials, innovative or traditional.
Every piece, poised between craftsmanship, design and art, is the fruit of a dialogue between the client and me, between ideas and reality, and between aesthetics and function.
I love both designing and making, and I follow each stage of a piece’s creation: concept, drawing, choice of materials, prototypes and models, production and delivery. When a piece is made in a workshop, I work closely with the makers to make sure it is realised exactly as intended.
I like to start with manual tools and techniques: sketches, scale models and prototypes made by hand. I use technology when it helps, but I strongly believe that “the intelligence of the hand” of the designer and maker should be present in the final result.
This, and that’s not little, makes my pieces unique.
What does my logo mean?
My logo, a simple representation of a hand, is inspired by the symbology of the Camuni rock art which underlines my tie with the Brescian territory and its mountainous areas, the cradle of the Camuni civilization. Of their many symbols, I chose the hand because I believe no technology or machinery could ever completely replace “the intelligence of the hand”. For this reason, each of my pieces is marked with this symbol, the fruit of an egalitarian relationship between the hand and the mind.