Alejo Ruocco de Luca
Alejo Ruocco de Luca has recently designed a remarkable collection of lamps. These are expressive objects which borrow from a wide range of vocabularies- while including an inventive, interactive element. Ruocco, who trained as an architect, works with the spatial nature of lighting, exploring, in his words; "the playful and magical nature of light". Ruocco's work conveys a sense of immediacy, by embracing the ready-made esthetics and manipulating materials at hand.  He reinvents freely both processes and poetic forms creating happy objects that work in endless configurations. Trained as an architect in Caracas, Venezuela, Alejo Ruocco de Luca seizes his inspiration from his cosmopolitan background. Born in an Italian family, Alejo decided to study furniture Design at Les Ateliers Saint Sabin in Paris. During his European journey, he collaborated with various studios.  He developed his first collection of 10 "make-ready" lamps, which are still on the backburner of his imagination. He then took off for the States where he worked for a couple of years for designer Gaetano Pesce as his project designer on the Open sky and Fish Design series. The work of Ruocco also spans site-specific environments such as the ones he design for Caracas Humboldt Hotel, Canalogy Festival in Brooklyn and the Art Director Club's Young Guns III NYC exhibition. Futureflair commissioned him to work on a paper objects series exhibited for the first time at the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale in October 2000. His new collection entitled IT'S AN OBJECT opened in Spring 2000, in partnership with patrons Lou Mahr and Godfrey Rayner. Please click on the images above to see the samples of Ruocco's creations.

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