Three Milan fairs in a row: Lorenzo de Grandis behind the i4Mariani stand

At the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the world's largest furniture fair, the i4Mariani stand of 2022, 2023 and 2024 was planned by the same person. Lorenzo de Grandis designed and styled all three, and the continuity is the point: his studio, working out of Carate Brianza since 2012, treats a brand as one story told through stands, catalogues, advertising pages and its website. It also writes chapters of that story in wood and leather. For i4Mariani he drew the Nami desk in 2022, with a beech frame bent in a mould and wrapped in saddle leather, and the Milano desk in 2024, whose top rests on two metal blades. His studio sums up its language as elegance, a visionary sense of harmony and care over detail, and backs it with a running study of colours and materials.

Indian directors who want his work in their own cabin order it from La Mercanti: the Nami and Milano desks, and the Mood System bookcase he designed in walnut or ebony-type veneer.