Language of light

Alcova, Fuorisalone

Milan, April 2025

Hosted at Alcova during Milan Design Week, the exhibition features an intimate ambiance where the interplay of light, materials, and space blurs the lines between the tangible and the intangible.

Language of Light invites visitors to discover a meditative space where a variety of light sculptures are on display. The exhibition showcases Diaphan Studio’s research into the interplay between light and matter. The exhibition entrance features a dynamic installation: a rotating translucent oval, its shape projected onto a white canvas. Light directed at the object shifts between two states, creating dramatically different visual effects on the canvas. This installation introduces the studio’s primary area of research — how light can influence the perception of form.

The theater of things

Design Miami

Miami Beach, December 2025

Since April 2025, Delvis (Un)Limited Gallery has repositioned itself as a space for exploring contemporary living. Its inaugural exhibition at Milan Design Week invited designers to inhabit a home they had designed themselves, turning lived experience into a form of research. This inquiry continues in Miami, where questions about living with collectible design and the dynamics of shared domesticity are further examined. At Design Miami, only the living area of the original house will be reconstructed, presenting the Milan pieces in new configurations shaped by the dialogues and insights that emerged during their time together. For this exhibition we were commissioned Compass, a custom version of our Tetra collection, a limited series sold exclusively through the gallery. The show was curated by valentinaciuffi of studiovedet, with exhibition design by spacecaviar.

Dark Times, Bright Signs

Delvis (Un)Limited

Milan, September 2025

This group exhibition was curated by Valentina Ciuffi of Studio Vedèt, for the collectible design gallery Delvis (Un)Limited. Below is an extract of the exhibition text:

“Times have been dark” more than once in history, and “the world has been falling apart” for centuries, countless times, generation after generation. Today, though, dystopia feels particularly realistic—certified, experienced electronically in real-time, and reinforced by scientific theories now accessible to all. Apocalyptic thinking not only surrounds us—it has become mainstream. Driven by this condition of hyperawareness, swept by waves of eco-anxiety, saturated by conflict and forced to face a rapidly-evolving reality —a new generation is developing new languages, perhaps forms of reworking, toward new balances, of hope. At the same time, though, the apocalyptic scenarios around us—or rather, upon us—cannot help but permeate our gaze, consciously or otherwise, shaping the creative language of today and the way we parse the world. Like fashion and contemporary art, the world of design is far from impermeable to the lived reality of its time.

Crystallized

Alcova, Fuorisalone

Milan, April 2025

For this exhibition the designer duo worked on a limited series of light sculptures, combining industrial brass profiles with cutting edge LED sources and optics. All visible effects in this exhibition are the result of controlled internal reflections within the luminaires polished walls, which scatter light into multiple rays with varying colour temperatures.

In some designs the rigid brass compositions are paired with natural stones, in the form of raw minerals or faceted gems. Thanks to their optical properties, the minerals refract the emitted light, casting soft patterns onto the surrounding space. The culmination of this research is SILF, a one-off sculpture built around a perfectly formed specimen of Iceland Spar.

Infinite Rhythms

Salon Art + Design

New York, November 2023

Diaphan's Tetra Twin was unveiled for the first time at Salon Art+Design, with the NY based Tuleste Gallery.

Twin is a brass sculpture that scatters light into a myriad of colourful rays. Its minimalistic body - inspired by the Tetragonal crystal system - was conceived as an instrument for light to play with. The extended dimension of the three brass profiles allows the light beams to reflect repeatedly within the lamp body, producing captivating light effects that are projected into the surrounding environment. By reinterpreting the invisible order of nature, we aim to make its fascinating qualities readable to the human eye, while transforming spaces into warm and relaxing ambiances.

Harmonious Proportions

NYC x Design

New York, May 2023

This group exhibition, organised by Tuleste Gallery in their Chelsea space, is a celebration of artistic diversity. Showcasing a range of works that explore the themes of balance, symmetry, and form. Harmonious Proportions refers to the relationship between different elements in a design or composition. The exhibition brings together 23 designers and artists for their own thematic approach to the concept of harmony, drawing inspiration from various sources, including nature, architecture, design and mathematics. Diaphan Studio took over one of the rooms alongside the sculptor Sol Bailey Barker. The spatial composition establishes a silent dialogue between abstract and organic geometries.