Emmanuel Babled founded his own studio in 1992, after graduating in Industrial Design at Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 1989. From Milan to Amsterdam, the studio has been based in several locations until it settled in Lisbon in early 2016. Since the start of his career, Babled has developed a wide range of unique pieces and limited editions in self-production – the Babled Editions – and with prestigious manufacturers such as Venini, Baccarat, Rosenthal and Fontana Arte. Alongside, Babled has also designed industrial products, furniture and lighting for clients including Felice Rossi, Vistosi, Kundalini, Viceversa, Giannini, Dupont de Nemours, Covo, Oluce, Gedy, amongst many others. Emmanuel Babled’s pieces are part of private and public collections around the world.

Emmanuel Babled's design approach is based on the idea that a good project is born through direct contact and physical presence in the territory of its production. Observing materials and techniques in their authentic surroundings, gaining a feeling for places and social conditions have become an important part of his work method. Territorial skills and the human factor are elements that determine the result. Babled has been working with glass in Murano (Italy) for many years for what has been a long and successful collaboration with Muranese master glassmakers. Along the years, he has also explored working with marble in Carrara, metal, wood and plexiglas in Lombardy, lavastone in Sicily, carpets in Nepal and cork in Portugal, amongst others. Continuing to explore different types of territorial skills, Babled has also been developing design projects in collaboration with artisans from various districts in Tanzania since 2021. Far from merely celebrating tradition, Babled is more interested in challenging traditional methods in order to obtain innovative and meaningful results. His work often combines a historical knowledge of the craft mixed with a computerized process and original composition.

We would like to thank photographer Stéphane Béchaud and photographer Yves Callewaert for the images of our studio in Rua da Madalena, Lisbon.