DESIGNER

Lily Latifi

Lily Latifi is a French-Iranian designer. Her sensitivity, shaped by both here and elsewhere, is reflected in each of her creations. For more than twenty years, she has woven an intimate relationship with textiles and natural light. Together, they trace thresholds, modulate transitions, and compose imaginary landscapes. The ongoing dialogue between interior and exterior has become her signature, her way of inhabiting space.

Lily designs and produces textile solutions for interior architecture, conceived to address the essential needs of living and working environments: playing with light without extinguishing it, seeing without exposure, modulating without partitioning, softening sound, tempering heat.

First and foremost a designer, Lily begins by listening to the material. She studies its properties, tensions, resistances, and functions long before seeking to give it form. Flexible materials open up an infinite field of experimentation, where technique becomes language and function naturally shifts toward expression.

Nothing is excluded from the process, not even accident. Irregularities, burns, and technical contingencies are welcomed. When they resonate graphically, Lily amplifies them, embraces them, and transforms them into deliberate choices. Does laser burning on wool felt create variations in density and color? She turns it into a vocabulary, drawing vibrant surfaces and playing with shades of brown, gold, copper, and sepia…

The purity of her mobile partitions reflects her search for balance. Evolving, restrained, and minimally intrusive, they shape atmospheres rather than define objects. Discreet yet present, they serve well-being.

For Lily Latifi, textile is neither décor nor ornament. It is poetry applied to architecture.