EDIT Napoli 2025 – All photo are by Eller Studio, unless indicated otherwise.
Design. We explored EDIT Napoli 2025 and fell in love with Naples all over again. Now in its seventh edition, the independent design fair takes over La Santissima – Community Hub, a vibrant urban regeneration project bridging the upper and lower parts of the city, connecting Naples’ layered past with its forward-looking future. Across the venue, makers and designers unveiled projects that redefined material, tradition, and storytelling — confirming once again that EDIT Napoli 2025 is much more than a fair; it’s a cultural statement.
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“Year after year, EDIT’s curatorial vision builds content that puts design and the city in dialogue,” explains founder Domitilla Dardi, who co-curated the fair with Emilia Petruccelli. “Our distinctive trait is a narrative capable of intertwining historic places and contemporary creativity, generating constant growth. It is the moment when research becomes storytelling, when design goes beyond objects to shape visions and projects that open new perspectives.” This curatorial ethos infuses the event with a sense of purpose — a celebration of craftsmanship and experimentation deeply rooted in place, yet open to the world.
At La Santissima, Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri of Lemonot welcome visitors with a suspended installation made of slender steel tubes, hooks, and cables — a poetic nod to port architecture and maritime life. The scene is completed by Teresa Carnuccio’s sea-inspired textiles, created with cyanotype techniques, draping like soft, rhythmic sails in motion.
At Cuore Carpenito, designer Claudia Carpenito turns ceramics into poetry. “I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand,” wrote Janet Fitch — a sentiment that finds physical form in the Metrica collection. “Three cylinders embody the spoken words, the unspoken, and the rhythm that connects them. Colours become emotion. Metrica is a collaborative poetry, where each arrangement becomes a verse in an infinite composition.” At EDIT Napoli 2025, her pieces whisper, breathe, and sing — blurring the line between craft and verse.
The dialogue between past and present continues with Studio Bojola and their Cristallo collection. Inspired by mid-century archives from Empoli’s historic crystalware workshops — celebrated since 1945 for their refined glass — the Florence-based atelier reinterprets these forms through a contemporary lens. Their colourful vessels capture the elegance of tradition while reframing it for a modern audience, proving that in the hands of today’s designers, history can gleam anew.
With her Inserti project, Chiara Lionello sparks a dialogue between craftsmanship and industry, uniqueness and repetition, tradition and innovation — giving new life to an archetypal object: the vase. Here, anodised aluminium, a symbol of industrial precision, meets the organic imperfection of hand-shaped ceramic.
Atelier Nuanda also plays with transformation, yet from a different angle — reimagining industrial precision as artisanal intimacy. The Inrō modular lamp features overlapping aluminium bars, laser-cut to create unrepeatable surfaces, suspended by electrified cables and glowing beads. “Overturning the paradigm of mass production, industrial machinery is used to craft light.” It’s an object that literally and metaphorically illuminates the tension between mechanical repetition and human touch — a philosophy that perfectly mirrors EDIT Napoli 2025’s spirit.
From glass art to glass waste, Rehub brings a message of radical circularity. “No waste but wonder” is their motto, and it resonates in every Venetian terrazzo-inspired surface and recycled glass furniture they create. Transforming unusable fragments from Murano furnaces into composite materials, Rehub turns industrial waste into elegant design. “From design to industry, we turn waste into circular beauty.” Their work stands as a reminder that sustainability is not a constraint but a source of creative energy.
In Rome, POP POT embraces the eternal dialogue between ancient and modern. “How can we breathe new life into age-old designs, ensuring they resonate with contemporary aesthetics while honouring their original essence?” asked Arabella Rocca and Giacomo Sanna, the studio’s founders. Their answer: a vibrant series of 3D-printed amphoras and columns, reimagined in striking pop colours. Playful yet reverent, their work brings a joyful irreverence to classical design, where the weight of history meets the levity of digital reinvention.
Finally, Berlin-based Lehn Studio introduces Statera, a sculptural coat stand made from steam-bent ash or oak. Minimal yet expressive, it balances craftsmanship and digital design. “Every project is a dialogue between material and vision. Through sustainable craftsmanship, our collections transcend the boundaries of conventional luxury.” Within the context of EDIT Napoli 2025, Statera feels like a quiet metaphor for balance itself — between tradition and innovation, hand and machine, Naples and the world.
STRATA is a collection of tactile, mineral-inspired finishes that draw on the beauty of geological layers. The project was born from the creative meeting between RIPA — Marco Ripa’s design brand known for its sculptural metal furniture — and Colori Decora, specialists in mineral-based paints and finishes. At La Santissima, STRATA takes shape on RIPA’s Chiodo table, where textured surfaces and soft matte pigments come together in a quietly striking composition.
Photo by Studiogusto.
In the end, EDIT Napoli 2025 is more than a design fair — it’s a mindset. It invites us to see materials as storytellers, objects as living connections, and cities as evolving archives of creativity. Here, design listens, responds, and transforms — a reflection of Naples itself: layered, luminous, and endlessly alive.
Photo by Eller Studio.
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