Studio Irvine

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Studio Irvine

Studio Irvine is a design studio based in Milan and run by the architect Marialaura Rossiello Irvine.

11/09/2026

Cotto is one of the oldest materials in architecture 🟡 earth, water, air, fire, five generations of knowledge. With Fornace De Martino and the extraordinary , I worked on a new system of formats: a lot of different sizes that gives architects the freedom to compose, without ever losing the soul of the material.

And then there is Lui e Lei 🧱 two bricks. A divider, a presence, an object that keeps you company…

This is only the beginning.

Thanks ADP Comunicazione for September publication on Abitare Magazine

Thanks Frank Stelitano for the picture in the studio!

07/09/2026

Back in the studio.

After Ladakh, after the silence, after the vastness, I come back with one word in my head: simplification.

And also with something deeper. Ladakh reminded me what it means to be proud of your own culture. To carry it forward with belonging, not nostalgia. To find beauty in the handmade, in the layered, in the thing that takes time and knows where it comes from. Simple, beautiful, full of stories.

And then there is the world we came back to. A global crisis: economic, climatic, human. Ladakh, in its own way, answered that too. It reaffirmed something I already believed but needed to feel again: every project has an impact. On the climate. On culture. On the people who will live with it.

This means taking a clear position on materials: using them intelligently, consciously, without waste or pretence. It means understanding that what we design is never neutral. It never was.

Simplification, then, is not an aesthetic choice. It is an ethical one.

The studio is quiet. The ideas are not. Let’s begin.

Photo Frank Stelitano

22/08/2026

Colour & texture 🇮🇳

From Ladakh to Kashmir to Rajasthan, a journey that reveals itself in surfaces before form. Rammed earth, lime, local stone, hand-dyed textiles: each technique tells the story of a territory that has learned to answer its own climate, its own light, its own constraints.

Not styles to import, but building logics to listen to; tradition as method, not as aesthetic.

21/08/2026

Architecture, space and light 🇮🇳

In Ladakh, raw earth remains the most intelligent response to climate: cool in summer, able to hold warmth through winter. Wooden staircases mark the vertical rhythm of the houses, built on the same logic for centuries.

In Srinagar, Kashmir, architecture is layered: wood and stone alternate in a building technique that is both structure and memory, with intricately carved woodwork that is entirely unique to the region.

In Jaipur, finally, it’s the delicate decorations and colours that define the space: ornament as an integral part of construction, not an addition.

Three territories, three different answers to the same question: how to build in harmony with light, space and one’s own place.

20/08/2026

Everyday objects 🟡 The most authentic forms are often those that bear no signature. Copper utensils, wooden benches, woollen rugs: products crafted by local artisans, blending tradition with modernity, born of use and perfected through repetition.

On my travels from Ladakh to Kashmir and Rajasthan, it is precisely these simple, functional and timeless objects that teach me about design and respect for craft processes.

01/08/2026

Laundry room is where a home actually begins 🟡 It’s the room that keeps everything else running: clean, ordered, dignified. I think it deserves the same care, the same thought, the same materials and colors as any other space in the house.

Dignity starts in the places no one photographs.

Except when they do beautifully:
Thank you Giorgio Possenti for V-ZUG

28/07/2026

Two floor coverings, some themes 🟡 Small-scale design, material experimentation and a wood that is entirely Italian.

30/06/2026

For several years now, we are doing a research into the regeneration of materials: waste powders from clay, stone and glass, which are given a new lease of life. Through the process and the form, the final result highlights the imperfection, density and poetry of the material, as well as the desire to touch it.

This is Dock: a small and light domestic structures to be touched and truly used. And every space needs a fixed point. A silent object on which to rest something: a glass, a book..that find its place beside the sofa, the bed, the armchair.

Marialaura Irvine X Gallotti&Radice

23/06/2026

Multiple cuts, a single origin 🟡 from the 26×26 module of the ‘riggiola’ (a typical Neapolitan tile) emerge 44 distinct shapes… an alphabet for composing and recomposing your own surface.

Modularity & Memories for Fornace De Martino
Colors by
PR ADP Comunicazione
Thanks mariano_cuofano

05/06/2026

The view from my desk 🟡 a typical Milanese courtyard seen through my embroidered wall

Designed by Marialaura Irvine
Photo
Thanks .co

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