Considered Spaces by Design Studio LO2 | Rise Art
The value of art for curators, writers, designers, and collectors in their most meaningful spaces.
LO2 Design Studio
Committed to noble materials and sustainable processes, Design Studio LO2, creates spaces where every element contributes to a coherent and deeply personal aesthetic narrative.
How do you engage art with architecture?
It’s not about art matching the space, but about it entering into dialogue with it. For the studio, the selection never begins with a colour palette or size, but with a concept. Ultimately, beyond its dialogue with the architecture, the artwork must resonate with the people who live there. Without that connection, no true dialogue is possible.
Beyond aesthetics, what does art bring to a living space?
Art introduces an emotional dimension that no other design element can achieve with the same intensity. We live surrounded by functional objects, but art doesn’t meet a practical need, it speaks to a deeper one: the need for expression or belonging. That’s what makes it so powerful in a space, it reveals something about the people who inhabit it. It’s like a non-literal signature.
What inspires you?
Above all, our inspiration comes from travel, traditional architecture, and craftsmanship. We try to avoid the spectacular in favour of the genuine. The same applies to craftsmanship: the handmade has a beauty that deeply attracts us and which we try to incorporate into the spaces we design.
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Curator's pick
Loneliness by Clare Thatcher
“We are drawn to its restraint, the way it commands presence without relying on representation or grandiloquent gestures. There is something in its materiality and use of colour that resonates with our way of understanding space: sober and serene, yet full of character. Loneliness does not impose itself, nor does it recede into the background; it simply knows how to inhabit its place. With texture, depth, and a subtle tension that gives it a quiet vibrancy, the painting feels alive.”
– Arán González Vicente
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