Lanzavecchia + Wai is a creative collaboration between Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai. To them, being designers means being researchers, engineers, craftsmen and story-tellers all at the same time. Wai hails from the south-east Asian island state of Singapore, educated as an industrial designer at the National University while Lanzavecchia received her BA in Product Design from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. They began their cooperation at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where both graduated with Masters in Design under the direction of Gijs Bakker, co-founder of Droog Design. Lanzavecchia’s main interest lies in the relationships objects have and can have with the human body and soul as well as having a fervent eye for future trends. Wai is fascinated by the collisions and fusions of materials, meanings and forms. Lanzavecchia + Wai have collectively garnered attention and accolades in major design platforms such as the SaloneSatellite ,Fuori Salone and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan (IT), MAXXI – the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (IT), DepotBasel (CH), Interieur Kortrijk (BE), IMM in Cologne (DE), Tokyo Design Week (JP) and Beijing Design Week (CN). Their work have also been represented and promoted in internationally renowned periodicals like *Wallpaper, Newsweek, FRAME, Form, Metropolis, ICON, DAMn, Items and important publications like “DESIRE: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME”, “TANGIBLE: HIGH TOUCH VISUALS”, “ONCE UPON A CHAIR”, all by Die Gestalten Verlag publishers. In 2011, Lanzavecchia+Wai took part in the first edition of Gruppo Sintesi workshop: Designers Only!