Founded in San Francisco in 1993 by Venezuelan-born industrial designer Pablo Pardo, Pablo Designs has built its reputation on a stubborn kind of restraint. Each piece is reduced to what it needs to be and no further: form, light, and the honest materials that carry them — machined aluminum, hardwood, marble, opal glass. Pardo works alongside a studio of makers and a roster of designers drawn from Milan and beyond, and the range moves easily between cordless pieces you carry from the table to the terrace and sculptural fixtures that anchor a room. What ties it together is a rejection of the disposable: warm-dim LEDs rated for roughly 25 years of daily use, built to come apart for repair, and almost entirely recyclable. Lighting meant to outlast the room it was bought for.
Pablo Designs