Simplicity generates Quality!

The studio Lucy.D was designed by the designer Barbara Ambrosz and Karin Santorso founded in Vienna in 2003, another came in 2016 Studio in Steyr.The two designers want their work to reflect their clear and open minded approach in their projects. True to their vision, they create various products in the fields of product, architecture as well as corporate design. Lucy.D´s vital engagement is to reveal the poetry in everyday life building a basis for developing their inspiring and at the same time practical products. Their design concepts merge form, function and technical aspects of a product in an intelligent way, constantly striving to create harmony and balance between tradition and innovation, sense and sensuality, detail and ensemble.

Ambrosz and Santorso work in an interdisciplinary fashion and are familiar with various technologies from manufactural up to robotic processes. Lucy.D concepts are planned with a high degree of sensitivity for the brand and material in question; Ambrosz and Santorso additionally offer their professional assistance throughout the whole process starting from implementation until the production of the final product. 
Employed in a three-year EU-funded research project The two in the team "Robotic Woodcraft" artistically with the Possibilities of an industrial robot in woodworking. (>roboticwoodcraft.com) In 2017, Ambrosz and Santorso joined forces with the owner a porcelain manufactory, Beate Seckauer, Neu / Zeug, a label for modern and sustainably produced porcelain lamps. (>neuzeug.at)

Barbara Ambrosz and Karin Santorso studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where both also taught. Her clients include u.a. Alessi, Lobmeyr, Augarten, Landtmann, Wiesner-Hager and Viteo. International awards, promotions and exhibitions crown the success of the studio. Tèo, a teaspoon for Alessi is with the Menzione d'onore Compasso d'Oro. 2014 awarded, Liquid Skin, the drinking bowl for Lobmeyr is u.a. in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY added. The cake collection for the Viennese coffeehouse Landtmann has been awarded the Wallpaper Design Award 2015, The label Neu/Zeug got awarded the Blickfang Design Prize in 2018.

AWARDS
BIGSEE Interior Design Award 2019 fuor m-zone, Lubijana (SLO)
NOMINATION ÖSTERREICHISCHER  STAATSPREIS DESIGN 2015 für LANDTMANN KOLLEKTION, Wien (A)
WALLPAPER DESIGN AWARD 2015 Best Coffee and Cake for LANDTMANN KOLLEKTION, London (GB)
COMPASSO D'ORO 2014 HONOURABLE MENTION for TÈO, Milano (I)
NOMINATION AUSTRIAN STATE AWARD FOR DESIGN 2013 for TÈO, Wien (A)
TÈO was choisen for ADI Design Index 2012  (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale)
1. prize, TÈO, Gift Fair (NY), ACCENT ON DESIGN: Excellence in Product Design Award 2011 (US)
1. prize, TOGETHER, chair, competition Promosedia, Udine (I)
1. prize, GATE 2Kcompetition of the City of Vienna (A)
2. prize, ROCKING CHAIRcompetition for Homogena (A)
2. prize, LIQUID SKIN, trinking cup, competition for Homogen (I)
Adlmüller scholarship for outstanding academic performance, Univ. f. Applied Arts, Vienna (AT)

 


DEPARTURE | Project funding for design studio LUCY.D
BKA.KUNST | Project funding for the Salone Satellite exhibition, Milan (IT)
BKA.KUNST | Project funding for die Exhibition at the Passagen, IMM, Cologne (DE)

UNIUN | Support for Young Business Entrepreneurs
PREMIEREEU | Project funding for the chair "Together"
 

CLIENTS
Despite careful checks, Lucy.D design studio does not assume liability for the contents of external links

Alessi
Augarten Porzellan
Backhausen textiles
Bio Austria

Burschik's Vermouth
Café Landtmann
DNA . Das neue Arbeiten

Energie Comfort
Eternit
goodgoods
Green Furniture
Hofmobiliendepot

Izzy+
Ja! Natürlich 
JoHa Gartenbau

Kirche St.Stephanus
KTU Linz
Kohlmaier Polstermöbel
Lobmeyr
Mühlbauer Hüte
Neu/Zeug
Nous Wissensmanagement
Oval Vodka
Seidlerei
Stölzle Oberglas
Swatch Group Österreich
Trainconsulting
Vienna Bag
Viteo
Weingut Jurtschitsch

Wirtschaftskammer Ö
Wirtschaftskammer Wien
Wiesner-Hager
Wombat's Hostels
1310 Spirits

LUCY.D COLLECTION CLIENTS

Ugly Home/Paris
The Collection/Paris
Paul Smith/London+NY
Autrefois/Mailand
Spazio Rossana Orlandi/Mailand
Roomservice/Hamburg
dopo domani, Berlin,
The Future Perfect/NY
Clio, NY
Louis Boston/Boston
Anthropology/Philadelphia,
Commissaires/Montreal
Galerie ArtUp/Wien,
Das Möbel/Wien
MAK Designshop/Wien