Born in 1992 on an island in southern Brazil, designer Lucas Recchia began his career in 2018 with his first solo show for the avant-garde gallery Firma Casa in São Paulo and quickly caught the attention of the country’s art and design community. The first Brazilian designer to develop glass techniques in furniture design, Recchia seeks to explore glass as a fluid material, pairing ancient and handcrafted techniques with solar power, expanding its sustainable nature.
Recchia currently works in his atelier in downtown São Paulo, where he develops his new projects with a group of local artisans. He explores the feeling that the aesthetic of broken glass evokes in people – a feeling of simultaneous loss and transformation – bringing its malleability to the furniture scale. Keeping in step with his constant search to innovate, in 2019, Recchia began using solar power to fuse 100% of the glass used in his pieces.
With a recent focus on how to reuse traditional materials besides glass, such as bronze, aluminum, Brazilian granites, exotic quartzites and marble, Recchia brings together ancestral techniques with contemporary modeling methods to achieve organic designs highlighting the nuances of each material’s natural properties – earning him a spot on Forbes’s 2022 ‘30 Under 30’ list in Architecture & Design.
Recchia has developed commissioned pieces for architects such as Kelly Wearstler, Sig Bergamin, and Steven Harris; and pieces for Off-White and Louis Vuitton stores.
