ABOUT
BARBARA AMBROSZ & KARIN SANTORSO
Simplicity generates Quality!
The studio Lucy.D was founded by the designers Barbara Ambrosz and Karin Santorso in Vienna in 2003, in 2016 another studio was added in Steyr, Upper Austria. The two designers studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where both also taught.
In their projects Lucy.D reflect their clear and open-minded approach. True to their vision, they create various, often artistic projects 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 way, often in cooperations with different partners. Lucy.Ds’ concepts are planned with a high degree of sensitivity for the brand and material in question; Both designers additionally offer their professional assistance throughout the whole process starting from implementation until the production of the final product. In 2017, Ambrosz and Santorso joined forces with the owner of a porcelain manufactory, Beate Seckauer and founded Neu/Zeug a label for modern and sustainably produced porcelain lamps. (www.neuzeug.at)
The design studio works for various companies and institutions such as Alessi, Veuve Cliquot, Breitwieser Stone, the Cultural Capital Bad Ischl 2024, Lobmeyr, Augarten, Wiesner-Hager or Trewit.
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 among others 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.
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 2K, competition of the City of Vienna (A)
2. prize, ROCKING CHAIR, competition 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