Video by Laura Panno, 2020
The Quark series of low coffee tables blends the exploration of materials with production techniques, to give birth to unique monolithic tables. The series’ name is a reference to a type of elementary particle, a fundamental constituent of matter.
Quark tables became the pretext to explore prime natural materials from their extraction to their transformation and to challenge each production stage. The knowledge acquired through this experience made it possible to develop an inclusive path, conscious of territorial reality and skills, where the project definition came to life through direct contact with the field. This piece is an exploration of wood which revisits the tradition of the cabinet maker. Carving the Quark tables’ graceful curves on a solid wood block assembly ensures this live material will be stable in time.
Each version explores various finishes, offering different results for each specimen, enhancing the oneness of this production and the infinite identity they can reflect.
The variety of the project reflects the diversity of humankind, in its traditions and abilities. For the designer, it is a passionate challenge each time, to combine traditional craft methods with the use of digital tools.

Video by Laura Panno, 2020
Quark Bronze, Copper, Stainless Steel, Brass

The Quark series of low coffee tables blends the exploration of materials with production techniques, to give birth to unique monolithic tables. This project became the pretext to explore prime natural materials from their extraction to their transformation and to challenge each production stage. The knowledge acquired through this experience made it possible to develop an inclusive path, conscious of territorial reality and skills, where the project definition came to life through direct contact with the field.
This video is an exploration of the different metal versions — brass, bronze, copper and stainless steel. Each version explores various finishes, offering different results for each specimen, enhancing the oneness of this production and the infinite identity they can reflect.
The variety of the project reflects the diversity of humankind, in its traditions and abilities. For the designer, it is a passionate challenge each time, to combine traditional craft methods with the use of digital tools that are useful in reproducing the perfect grace of the Quark table curves.

Video by Laura Panno, 2020
The Etnawood project emerged from the Etnastone collection, an earlier design using lava stone from the eponymous volcano. This time, Etna tables have a different skin, wood. Like former projects by Emmanuel Babled, Etna became the pretext to explore diverse prime natural materials while challenging production processes.
Etnawood tables are shaped by the union of different pieces of wood, based on experimenting with puzzling compositions. The fully handcrafted process allows endless customisation possibilities, from the diversified palette of natural essences, to their model and size. Every Etnawood table is a unique piece.
This project is another successful collaboration with the Danish cabinetmaker Anders Lunderskov, with the certainty that forests are treated with respect during timber extraction and come with certification of the product’s origin. This wooden piece is produced with natural treatments and finishes.

Video by Laura Panno, 2020 | Image credits: Laura Panno, Marco Sweering
The Supernova art light series in marble required two years of development to achieve the perfect shades, unfolding into three distinct models in a light, thin layer of marble.
These shades are so light they can be hung from the ceiling, making the marble fly in space, and so thin the incorporated Led light goes through the transparency of the paper-like lampshade.
The production process has been made possible thanks to the high technology involved, allowing just a 3mm thickness to be carved. It feels natural to use the peculiar qualities of the Carrara white marble, characterised by its smooth and compact nature, ideal for this challenging execution.
Supernova is a blend of ancient knowledge, proper to the tradition of the Italian artists in our history, with the technological revolution that marks our time.

Video by Valentina Zanobelli
Osmosi is a series of unique glass-and-marble vases, furniture and lighting. The project lies on the border between serial production and one-of-a-kind sculptures. Each piece is resolutely functional.

Osmosi includes furniture, lighting and vases based on a mutual concept: to capture the natural grace of the form offered by the glass’s fluidity when blown, during the fusion. Babled captures, through 3D scanning, this natural gift that is born in glass by the hands of the glass masters, and shapes the marble identically, thanks to the use of digital carving technology. This way, the two pieces fit together perfectly, with no need for anything other than gravity. An unexpected symbiosis arises, with the combination of the inert stone with the organic glass — two separate pieces that have no meaning without each other.

Image credits: Carlo Lavatori, Laura Panno, Nicole Marnati, Philippe Simões (Roof Magazine), VU.ZED

Den Chair represents a technical challenge, with the creation of a huge marble piece that you surprisingly can twirl with just one finger. The chair is shaped like a shell, offering great spatiality and multiple possibilities of seating positions. This welcomes the user with an unexpected comfort sensation, that contrasts with the object’s heavy and solid material. 
The comfortable sense is combined with the startling spinning capability in 360 degrees, increasing the feeling of lightness and mobility of the overall piece.

Image credits: Carlo Lavatori, Marco Sweering, Simon Bertheux

Librastone is an organic-shaped coffee table, in perfect sintony with the cosmic law of gravity. Thanks to a complex algorithm used on its design, the magic stone stands balanced in one point of the curved body. Despite being a solid block of marble, it twirls and oscillates gracefully, always returning to a precise horizontality.
This piece is an expression of how it is possible to use modern technology towards creating playful and unexpected experiences, between the human body and a reactive object.

Image credits: Carlo Lavatori, Laura Panno, Valentina Zanobelli

Paladini is a limited edition series of busts, seeking to capture the essence and simplicity of their own silence. These sculptural objects are developed owing to the expert hands of Venini’s master glassmakers, in Murano. Perennial and crystallized, they embody a just and wise pose to highlight the mythical figure of gladiators. The chromatic compositions, always one-of-a-kind thanks to the boundless Venini palette, are reconciled to the diversity of the souls they represent. Each one a different colour, each guardian of a tradition unique in the world.

Image credits: Laura Panno, Venini

Video by Laura Panno, 2019
Paladini busts seek to capture the essence and simplicity of their silence — perennial, crystallized, in a just and wise pose, thanks to the expert hands of master glassmakers. The chromatic compositions are reconciled to the diversity of the gladiators and theologians souls they represent.

Video by Laura Panno, 2019
Azoici consists of a series of unique glass pieces, hand-blown in collaboration with Master Andrea Zilio, and exclusively produced at Venice’s Murano Island. Each piece of the collection is different, in its own way expressing the interaction between the plasticity of the material and the serendipity of the master blower’s movement.

Video by Pedro Macedo, 2019
Beverly was born out of a collaboration with the Portuguese foundation FRESS, which protects and promotes Portuguese decorative arts and handicrafts within the residency program curated by Passa Ao Futuro.
Handcrafted with different woods, including brown smoked oak, walnut, zebrano and palisander, this organic chest features a hand-carved unique surface design and suggests a mystery to be solved.

Working in the furnace often means seizing the moment, it takes an instant to crystallize materials and colours perennially. This is what happens under Emmanuel Babled’s direction, when masters create the Pyros artworks. Surfaces become memories that recall colours.
Colour is thrown onto glass like a meteorite, following the designer’s intuition and recalling the movements of action painting. Fast gestures, team work and the overlapping of unique colours, carefully selected from the Venini palette, are the main features of this amazing artwork that embodies light and emotions. Pyros artworks express the perfect symbiosis between Venini’s unique craftsmanship and the author’s creativity.
Each Pyros is a unique artwork that symbolizes a unique day at Venini, with its masters, colours and contemporary inspiration. Pyros is a limited edition, dated on the same day of its production.

Image credits: Andrea Vianello, Laura Panno, Marco Sweering, Venini

Osmosi Light is a collection of numbered editions and unique pieces, marrying marble and glass into a perfect symbiosis, resulting in sculptural pieces of lighting.
By combining new technology with traditional craftsmanship in an innovative way, a graceful fusion is made between two very different materials, with a precision only possible thanks to high-level digital tools.
Two separate pieces are born, but each has no meaning without the other, fitting together perfectly through gravity alone.

Image credits: Babled Studio, Carlo Lavatori, Laura Panno, Marco Sweering, VU.ZED

Omega project was the first time Emmanuel Babled challenged the Venini masters with such large pieces. 30 kg of glass, composed by different layers and colours, are placed at the extremity of the pipe at incandescent temperatures and have to be managed with dexterity and determination. Working in real time with such a mass of glass demands strength, precision, speed and intuition, mixed into a kind of choreography directed by the master, along with his team and the designer.
Various glass elements are applied to the piece’s surface, defining a strong graphic rhythm to the object, mixing opacity with transparency. Some serendipity of the process is present because, as always with glass, there are failures and successes. Rather than seeking total control over the final lines, it is much more about creating a composition and letting the material naturally contribute to the grace of the result.
Each Omega is unique, and before being a vase, it is a graphic presence fused for eternity on the glass skin, using ancient techniques in a contemporary expression.

Image credits: Marco Sweering, Venini

Video by Marco Sweering, 2014
Each Omega is unique, and before being a vase, it is a graphic presence fused for eternity on the glass skin, using ancient techniques in a contemporary expression.

For the past six centuries, a unique production of handblown glass has been concentrated on the island of Murano, that is part of the Venetian Lagoon. It is considered to be the first major glassmaking centre of Europe and is known to have a unique colour palette in the world.
The tacit knowledge of the glassmakers is seen as a treasure, thanks to sophisticated techniques they have perfected over time, which result on the finest production, nowadays. Glassmaking is a hard and uncomfortable profession, as it demands working under very high temperatures and finishing pieces in real time. Each piece is like a birth, requiring rapid and precise gestures from the master, in a perfect synchronization with their team. However, the difficulty of the practice is overlapped by the passion towards the traditional craft. It continues attracting worldwide artists and designers to work in direct contact with Murano’s masters, keeping the incredible tradition alive.

Image credits: Laura Panno, Marco Sweering

Video by Marco Sweering, 2015
A compilation of Emmanuel Babled’s glassworks, produced in a collaboration with VENINI, in Venice’s Murano Island.

Designed for VENINI
Simbiosi and Simbiosi Wood present the unique and inimitable colours of the famous VENINI furnace palette. As the project name suggests, it results from the symbiosis of very distinct materials — glass and marble or glass and wood. The fusion of the gracefulness of glass with the solidity of marble and wood gives birth to these harmonious pieces.
The organic glass shape is carved on the solid materials through a digital process, shaping the perfect match.

Image credits: Carlo Lavatori, Marco Sweering, VENINI