Federica Elmo is a Roman product and interior designer with a 15 years experience in the design industry. Living and working between Milan and Syracuse, she moves fluidly between interior design, furniture, and objects, navigating a space where contemporary experimentation meets tradition.
At the heart of her work lies a continuous exploration of materiality and surfaces, shape and the sensory relationships we form with objects. She balances artisanal techniques with industrial processes to create designs that are both expressive and functional. Her interest in second-hand materials and found objects is not aesthetic, is more about an ethical way of recovering overlooked resources and giving new life to waste, offcuts, or second-choice materials, both in product design and in interior projects.
Driven by a strong curiosity and a desire to cross disciplinary boundaries, her practice embraces multiple scales. She sees no hierarchy between a house and a spoon: both are design opportunities that invite storytelling, emotion, and function. Inspired by everyday life, art and observation of reality, her work plays with proportions, surfaces and perceptions and an ongoing exploration of how we live with and relate to the objects around us.
