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.