Hi, I’m Paolo

I’m an industrial designer with 15+ years of experience developing bespoke furniture and objects — from initial concept through to production-ready designs, working directly with artisans and manufacturers, crafting products for industry.

I’ve spent years making demanding designs real @ David Gill Gallery in London.

As Head of Production at David Gill Gallery in London, I led the development and manufacture of limited edition furniture by Zaha Hadid, Mattia Bonetti and Fredrikson Stallard.

I managed the full journey: technical documentation, supplier coordination, prototyping, sampling and refinement, working with specialist artisans and high-end manufacturers across the UK and Europe.

An interior photo of a furniture exhibition.

I began my career designing for production.

Trained in Industrial Design at Curtin University in Perth, Wester Australia. I started as a furniture designer for a solid timber manufacturer — where proportion, material honesty and the logic of how things are made were the daily discipline.

One of those early chairs is still in use at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD) at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

An interior photo of King's hall at Old Parliament House.

I founded a furniture label.

Nomade Editions is a Berlin-based bespoke DIY furniture label that enables users to customize, personalize and download designs to make themselves with the help of local CNC fabricators.

Nomade Editions is not a furniture manufacturing company. Rather, a ‘DIY Design’ label and design studio, that experiments and prototypes ideas for flat-pack, CNC furniture.
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Nomade Editions was started as a project to explore how design can respond to our current crisis' without being subsumed into the prevailing consumerist system based on mass production and unlimited growth.

I’ve led product and UX design in digital manufacturing.

As Product Lead at superdesign.tech and customspace.shop, I worked on systems that connect digital design to distributed physical production — keeping one foot firmly in the question of how designed things actually get made.

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I am a firm believer in the power of design thinking to help improve all facets of our lives.

“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones … Design so construed is the core of all professional training.”

— Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial

A book cover of 'The Sciences of the Artificial' by Herbert A Simon

Take a look at my work, and feel free to reach out.

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