Studio Giacomo Moor

What Studio Giacomo Moor does

Studio Giacomo Moor is a private, multidisciplinary design studio founded in Milan in 2009 by Giacomo Moor (born 1981). The studio operates with approximately six employees comprising architects, designers, and carpenters, working across product design, interior architecture, and site-specific projects. All projects are personally supervised by Giacomo Moor through the entire creative process, from concept through production. The practice is headquartered at Via Clitumno 14, Milan, and has exhibited internationally in Paris, London, New York, Singapore, and Porto.

The studio's core technology is a wood-focused design practice specializing in solid wood furniture, cabinetmaking techniques, and architectural joinery systems, working with materials including oak, chestnut, American walnut, iroko, bamboo, and combining wood with metal, glass, stone, and marble. Proprietary construction systems include the Igeta Shikuchi (Castle Joint) reinterpretation, sequential interlocking joints that eliminate visible fasteners, the Dual-Flap mechanism in the Ghostwriter desk, the Fold Crusher process for metal door coverings, and the K.01/K.02 integrated handle systems. Cross-project IP includes construction principles enabling component replacement without affecting the entire structure, applied across furniture for Mathare school, the Temporary to Permanent exhibition structure, and the MA.01 Minorca nursery.

The studio operates through three revenue streams: licensing/royalties from product designs manufactured and distributed by Italian furniture companies (Acerbis since 2016, Living Divani, Cappellini, Desalto, QuadroDesign, SEM); one-off licensing for limited edition pieces (typically 12+1 AP or 25+1 AP) sold through design galleries (Giustini/Stagetti, Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, Memphis Milano); and professional services for private client commissions and site-specific architectural projects (including NGO work with LiveinSlums in Nairobi). No public pricing is disclosed; partner manufacturers set their own retail prices. The studio's customer base is concentrated among a small number of repeat Italian furniture manufacturer clients, supplemented by gallery and private commissions.

Name

Studio Giacomo Moor

Legal name

Studio Giacomo Moor

Website

https://giacomoor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Studio Giacomo Moor is a Milan-based multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2009, employing six architects, designers, and carpenters who design furniture collections, interior architecture, and site-specific projects for Italian furniture manufacturers, design galleries, private clients, and NGOs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Furniture Design Services

NAICS

Interior Design Services (541410), Architectural Services (54131)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial/Product & Furniture Design (BPAHAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Industrial furniture design
• Architectural interior design
• Wood joinery systems
• Limited edition design
• Micro-architecture design

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan, Lombardy

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Product Design for Companies: Designing furniture and product collections for established furniture companies (Acerbis, Cappellini, Living Divani, etc.) who manufacture and distribute the designs commercially.
2. Limited Edition Pieces: Producing limited edition pieces (typically 12+1 AP, 25+1 AP) for design galleries such as Giustini/Stagetti, Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, Memphis Milano.
3. Private Client Commissions: Creating one-of-a-kind pieces for private clients, as well as site-specific interior architecture projects for residential and commercial spaces.
4. Architectural and Interior Projects: Site-specific architecture and interior design projects including residential renovations, commercial spaces, and community projects (LiveinSlums).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Studio Giacomo Moor is a multidisciplinary design practice that designs furniture collections, interior architecture projects, and site-specific micro-architecture for established furniture manufacturers, design galleries, NGOs, and private clients. The studio creates industrial product lines that are manufactured and distributed by partner companies (Acerbis, Cappellini, Living Divani, etc.), produces limited-edition pieces sold through design galleries, and delivers bespoke one-of-a-kind furniture and architectural projects for private residential, commercial, and community clients, with all projects personally supervised through every phase of the creative process by founder Giacomo Moor.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temporary to Permanent (QuadroDesign exhibition structure) Modular exhibition structure created for QuadroDesign for Salone del Mobile 2026, built from aluminium joints, a light timber frame, and reconfigurable panels that can act as partitions, surfaces, or roofing; after the fair it will be reassembled in Masala, Zambia as a permanent public bathroom.
• Fillet Lounge (Living Divani) Lounge chair designed for Living Divani that combines different manufacturing processes applied to various materials to produce a lightweight, highly stable, and durable structure, with the supporting frame shaped by a calendering process.
• Pole Pole (Porto Design Biennale)
• Fillet (Living Divani) Lounge chair for Living Divani combining different production processes across various materials to create a lightweight yet highly stable and durable structure, with the metal frame shaped by calendering.
• Mathare (Cappellini) Furniture collection for Cappellini built around a construction system that ensures stability through sequentially interlocking joints between components, with cross-sections following repetitive logic across legs, crossbars, and stretchers.
• Thumb (QuadroDesign) Family of taps and knobs designed for QuadroDesign, characterised by pure steel volumes from which a small portion of material is removed to create a mark that functions as a tactile suggestion for use.
• Halfsquare (Living Divani) Vertical family of storage units for Living Divani that alternates open compartments with drawers, continuing the research around industrial semi-finished products begun with the 2023 Railway sideboards.
• Pinocchio (ADI Design Museum) Sugar bowl for the ADI Design Museum 'Carissimo Pinocchio' exhibition, composed of two overlapping primary solids (sphere and cone) that evoke Pinocchio's face and hat.
• Railway (Living Divani) Family of sideboards for Living Divani composed of open and closed compartments, with metal squared-section tubular supports that, when rotated 45 degrees, become a track for a sliding door.
• Stac (Desalto) Family of storage units for Desalto built around stacking elements, where each module is a monolithic wooden volume supported by a thin metal sheet that can be inserted onto the module below.
• Funambolo (Giustini/Stagetti) Wall and suspended lamp collection for Giustini/Stagetti inspired by acrobats, with pure and essential lines and magnetic conduction that enables electrical passage through contact between two overlapped arms.
• Pivot (SEM) Collection for SEM named after its pivoting mechanism for cupboard doors, comprising writing desk, bookcase, corner and free-standing consoles, storage unit, and small table, with a metal tube supporting structure, stone elm shelves, and etched brass doors made by Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
• Centina (Giustini/Stagetti) Collection of table, writing desk, and shelving system for Giustini/Stagetti inspired by bridge designs, exploring the formal and structural relationship between arch and centering using Roman bridge-building techniques.
• Outline (Acerbis) Self-supporting bookshelf for Acerbis with rounded recesses along the sides that allow units to slide easily, available in three versions that create an uneven landscape.
• Vapore (Galleria Luisa Delle Piane) Five-piece collection for Galleria Luisa Delle Piane (table, bookcase, mirror, console, and corner console) exploring solid wood steam-bending and the relationship between curved wood and glass.
• Ghostwriter (Acerbis) Monolithic home-office volume for Acerbis that opens to reveal a multi-purpose space; the Dual-Flap system opens the front cover into a writing table with a single movement, and the top lifts to access interior compartments including power outlets and an LED touch light.
• Kit del Legnamé (Fondazione Cologni, Living, Yoox) Box designed to hold six essential carpentry tools, made from American walnut and olive, produced in collaboration with master cabinet maker Giordano Viganò with Fondazione Cologni, Living, and Yoox.
• Alterego Low (Acerbis) Low sideboard for Acerbis, available as single or double units in different finishes, with sculptural shapes and a suspended effect.
• Alterego (Acerbis) Sideboard and cabinet pair for Acerbis, available as single or double units in different finishes, combining three different opening systems (hinged door, sliding front panel, and drawer).
• Palafitte (ProjectB) Seven-piece limited edition furniture collection for ProjectB (high console, low console, desk, low table, divider screen, bedside table, and coffee table) built from bamboo fibre sheets overlaid with hot glue, interpreting bamboo as a structural system.
• Metropolis (Memphis Milano/Post Design) Seven limited-edition interior micro-architectures for Memphis Milano/Post Design evoking metropolis skylines (bookcase, desk, horizontal and vertical wall units, coffee table, wardrobe, and console), built from precious walnut wood volumes within black-varnished reticular structures.
• Attraverso (Memphis Milano/Post Design) Limited-edition collection of treasure cases (12+1 AP) for Memphis Milano/Post Design, built by transforming old oak beams and joining wood with cement to replicate the relationship between beam and architectural volume.
• Design for Communities - Mathare Kitchen Architecture (LiveinSlums) Small kitchen architecture unit for LiveinSlums in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, dedicated to food preparation and distribution for the children of Why not Academy; the minimal unit is elevated on a concrete podium and houses a kitchen capable of cooking up to 300 meals a day.
• Design for Communities - Mathare School Furniture (LiveinSlums) Furniture prototypes designed with local communities for the dining hall and dormitory of a school in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, based on production simplification through formal synthesis; built for LiveinSlums.
• Site-specific Interior and Micro-architecture Design Service

Quantifiable outcome

• No visible nails, screws, or connectors in final pieces - construction system ensures stability through geometry alone
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AcerbiscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOngoing collaboration since 2016 producing multiple collections including Alterego, Alterego Low, Ghostwriter, and Outline. Acerbis manufactures and distributes these furniture collections.
• CappellinicoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration producing the Mathare furniture collection (2025), developed around a construction system ensuring stability through interlocking joints.
• Living DivanicoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLong-standing collaboration producing multiple collections including Railway sideboards, Halfsquare storage, Fillet lounge chair, and Fillet Lounge. One of the studio's most significant partnerships.
• QuadroDesigncoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration on Thumb taps and knobs family, and the Temporary to Permanent modular exhibition structure for Salone del Mobile 2026.
• DesaltocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration producing the Stac storage units family (2020), characterized by stacking elements.
• Giustini / StagetticoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGallery collaboration on Centina collection (2018) inspired by bridge designs, and Funambolo lamp collection (2019).
• Galleria Luisa Delle PianecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration producing the Vapore collection (2017), exploring solid wood steam bending technique.
• Memphis Milano / Post DesigncoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaborations on Attraverso collection (2013) transforming old oak beams, and Metropolis collection (2014) interior micro-architectures.
• SEMcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration producing the Pivot collection (2018), featuring pivoting mechanism for cupboard doors with etched brass doors by Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
• LiveinSlumscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing partnership with NGO working in Mathare slum, Nairobi. Studio designs furniture and micro-architecture for school facilities, with prototypes built on-site with local communities. First collaboration in 2023 for dining hall and dormitory, second in 2024 for kitchen architecture.
• ProjectBcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration producing the Palafitte collection (2015), reinterpretation of bamboo as structural system for limited edition furniture.
• Fondazione CologniminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Kit del Legnamè project (2016), a box for carpentry tools made from American walnut and olive.
• YooxminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Kit del Legnamè project (2016) alongside Fondazione Cologni and Living.
• ADI Design MuseumminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDesign of Pinocchio sugar bowl for 'Carissimo Pinocchio' exhibition (Nov 2023 - Apr 2024) celebrating 140th anniversary of first Pinocchio edition.
• Porto Design BiennaleminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCollaboration on Pole Pole project (2025), proposal for construction system of microarchitecture and furniture adapted to Porto context. 'Pole Pole' means 'slowly' in Swahili.
• KoalisationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Africa for Temporary to Permanent project, handling dismantling and reassembly of exhibition structure in Masala, Zambia as permanent public bathroom.
• Multi FormminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative Direction partner for Temporary to Permanent exhibition structure project.
• PlatekminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLighting Partner for Temporary to Permanent exhibition structure at Salone del Mobile 2026.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Patricia Urquiola: Spanish-born, Milan-based designer with her own multidisciplinary studio. Operates the same model: licensing furniture collections to leading Italian manufacturers (Cassina, Moroso, B&B Italia, Cappellini, Living Divani) plus limited editions and interior projects. Closest direct comparable in scale, geography, and partner overlap.
• GamFratesi: Danish-Italian design duo with a Copenhagen-based studio producing furniture and product collections for leading European manufacturers (Hay, Fritz Hansen, Lightyears, Cassina). Similar small multidisciplinary studio structure with brand-partner licensing model.
• Jasper Morrison: British designer with a London- and Tokyo-based practice designing furniture, lighting, and products for leading manufacturers (Vitra, Cappellini, Alias, Foscarini). Highly comparable partner-licensing model with a similar restrained, material-focused design language.
• Yabu Pushelberg: Toronto- and New York-based multidisciplinary design studio producing furniture, interiors, and product lines for luxury brands. Comparable studio model spanning furniture licensing, interior architecture, and high-end hospitality projects.
• Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: French design duo operating a Paris-based studio producing furniture, lighting, and objects for major European manufacturers (Vitra, Cassina, Hay, Magis, Flos). Closely comparable multidisciplinary, partner-licensing model with strong craft and joinery orientation.
• Vincent Van Duysen: Belgian architect and product designer with extensive collaborations with Italian and European furniture brands (Floss, B&B Italia, Molteni, Poltrona Frau). Comparable architecture-plus-product studio model with manufacturer partnerships.
• Tom Dixon: British designer with a self-titled studio producing industrial furniture collections, lighting, and accessories via partner manufacturers, plus a retail/gallery network. Comparable licensing-plus-brand model in the premium furniture segment, though operating at a larger commercial scale.
• Piero Lissoni: Milan-based architect and designer running a multidisciplinary studio with deep, long-standing collaborations across Italian and international furniture brands (Cassina, Living Divani, Porro, B&B Italia, Knoll). Closely comparable studio structure, Milan geography, and licensing-driven business model.
• Arik Levy: Paris-based designer, artist, and photographer running an eponymous studio producing furniture, lighting, and installations for manufacturers (Vitra, Cinna, Forestier, Vibia). Comparable self-named studio with industrial product and limited-edition output.
• Michele De Lucchi: Italian architect and designer with his own Milan-based practice, with extensive collaborations on furniture, lighting, and product lines for Italian and international manufacturers (Artemide, Alias, Poltrona Frau, Vitra). Comparable multidisciplinary, manufacturer-partner-driven model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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