news

15.04.2008  

Comodoro for Danese
Francisco continues his collaboration with Danese designing Comodoro, a complete shelving system to be launched during Salone del Mobile at the New Fair, Pavillion 12.

Comodoro

11.02.2008  
Solar Bottle at MOMA
The Solar Bottle designed with Alberto Meda will be part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA New York, from February 24th to May 12th.
 

12.01.2008  
We have moved!
The new studio address is via Savona 123, 20144 Milano.
 

30.11.2007  
Award Scritture d'Acqua
The Solar Bottle has received the recognition of the Scritture d'Acqua 2007 Award.
 

24.08.2007  
Index Award 2007
The Solar Bottle designed with Alberto Meda has been awarded with the First Prize of the Index Award in the Home category.
Omero

16.04.2007  
Josephine B. for Artemide
Francisco signs for Danese a new table lamp, Josephine B. that will be launched in Milan during Salone del Mobile 2007.
Omero

16.04.2007  
Sarmiento for Danese
During Salone del Mobile Danese will present the new library Sarmiento designed by Francisco, a simple shelf system capable of disappearing behind the books that holds. Danese will be at the New Fair Ground in Pavilion 8.
Omero

05.03.2007  
Index Award 2007
The Solar Bottle designed with Alberto Meda has been selected as a Top Nominee for the Index Award in the Home category.
 

08.12.2006  
Most Intriguing Products 2006
Also this year ID Magazine has chosen one of Francisco's projects, the magazine rack Omero, among their selection of 2006's most intriguing products.
 

05.04.2006  
Omero for Driade
Francisco has designed for Driade an unusual magazine rack in aluminium and three stainless steel legs. The magazines fit perfectly between the conical rings that give shape to Omero. During Salone del Mobile it will be presented at Driade's showroom in via Manzoni 30 and at the New Fair Ground, Pavilion 8.
Omero

11.01.2006  
recognition for Ovidio
Ovidio table has been selected by ID Magazine as one of 2005's most intriguing products.
 

12.05.2005  
new table for Danese
Famous italian company Danese has presented during Salone del Mobile 2005 the table Ovidio designed by Francisco Gomez Paz . Born after a deep study of folded metal plate technology, Ovidio is a self-supporting geometric structure which becomes a form capable of changing according to the changes in the point of view.
Ovidio

15.04.2004  
design report award
Design Report Award 2004 has awarded with a special mention our chaise longue Apero , launched at Salone Satellite 2004.
Apero

biography

Francisco Gomez Paz, born in October 1975 in Argentina . After obtaining the Industrial Design degree at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba he moves to Milano, where he obtains his Master in Design at Domus Academy.

In 2000 he works as tutor for Domus Academy and since then has collaborated with them in the fields of research and education.
After working with architect Paolo Rizzato for four years he opens his own studio in Milan, developing product and design projects for several companies: Artemide, Driade, Danese, Olivetti, Sector, Gispen, Sumampa, Conven, Apen Group and Italkero.

Received several international prizes: Design Preis Schweiz, Honorable Mention (1999), LG Competition Korea, 2 Honorable Mention (1999), ID Magazine Annual Design Review (2000), BMW/Domus “A key for future mobile solutions”, First Prize (2001), Design Report Award nomination (2001), Design Report Award (2004), Special Mention and INDEX Award, First Prize in the Home Category (2007).
Exhibited at Future Concept Lab Seminars, Salone Satellite 2001 and 2004 and Fuori Saloni 2002, 2003 and 2005 at Milano.
His projects have been published by main design pubblications.


projects
furniture
sarmiento

Sarmiento is a shelf capable of disappearing behind the books that holds, conferring them the most important role. In fact the books, with their variety of colour and shape, create a flexible and never repeating landscape. This effect is possible thanks to a clever design invention; the 20 degrees angulation of the shelf hosts the barycentre of different sized books in only 12 cm. The result is a light, small and almost invisible object.





Client: Danese Milano
Year: 2007




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omero

Omero is a curious three-legged object in aluminium and stainless steel, mirror polished. Its unusual shape makes it appear to be a sculpture, or a starship, but it is a surprising magazine holder. Newspapers and magazines fit perfectly between its rings, hanging suspended in mid-air like paper flowers.

Client: Driade
Year: 2006




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ovidio

Ovidio is a table born out of a deep study of molded metal plate. Studying the details of the folding process and exploiting the potential of this simple technology to the maximum the object achieves a synthesis of the essentiality and richness of surface treatments.

The result is a self-supporting geometric structure which becomes a form capable of changing according to the changes in point of view.

Client: Danese
Year: 2005




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Salone Satellite 2004
Photo Miro Zagnoli

apero

Apero is a chaise longue entirely made by hand in Argentina.
The project is part of a research in collaboration with Sumampa, aimed at rediscovering the genuine value of a craft tradition from the north of Argentina

Apero utilises raw leather stitched over a steel structure. The drying leather submits high tension to the structure, which behaves elastically. The result is a mixed structure of remarkable rigidity.

Client: Sumampa
Year: 2004
Design Report Award 2004 - Special Mention
www.apero.gomezpaz.com

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Apero
Photo Francisco Gomez Paz

milagros

Milagros is part of a research aimed at rediscovering the genuine value of a craft tradition from the north of Argentina , a region profoundly forgotten by the frenetic consumer market, forgotten by the map of progress.

Milagros is a coffee table made of a wooden top with interlaced raw leather and laser cut iron legs.

Client: Sumampa
Year: 2003




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Milagros
Photo Gimena Gomez Paz

lighting
Josephine B.

Table lamp with mechanical arms, it can assume numerous positions rotating 180°, thanks to the two joints placed in the base support which transmit the movement to the arms directly o through the dentated strap from mechanical arm table. The diffuser can be positioned in all the directions.

Arms and mechanical joints made of mirrored aluminium, diffuser made of anodized aluminium and moulded thermoplastic.


Client: Artemide
Year: 2007
Designed with Daniele Moioli



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lighting - metro

Metro is a ligthing fixture made with one foil of 3M film OLF and two foils of polycarbonate, that structures when the packaging is unrolled with a simple gest.

Metro is not only a lamp but a system, a way to structure bidimensional elements creating a strong an efficient self-structured object.

Year: 2001
Design Report Award 2004 - Nomination



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Metro
Photo Stefano Parini

lighting - viva

Viva is a reuse lamp, created with two arms of a foldable umbrella and two foils. It comes folded and closed in a silicon foil that once opened becomes the base that supports the lamp.
As you unfold it, in a growing like gest, the light turns on.

Year: 1999
Design Preis Schweiz - Honorable Mention





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Photo Francisco Gomez Paz

projects
projects - bi

Bi proposes a flexible mobile concept, a vehicle that has all the advantages of being two vehicles when needed.

Bi is composed by two modules that could be defined as roofed scooters similar to the BMW C1, with the particularity of having a mechanical system that permits to join them, creating a new bigger vehicle, with capacity for four seats or two seats plus load.

Client: BMW
Year: 2001
BMW/Domus A key for Future Mobile Solutions - First Prize

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products
Olivetti Nettuna

Nettuna is the new model of cash register launched by Olivetti, conceived for retail shops. Art Direction by Valerio Castelli.



Client: Olivetti
Year: 2007


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Solar Bottle


Solar Bottle

Solar Bottle is a low-cost container capable of disinfecting water for people consuming microbiologically contaminated raw water; based in the SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) system. The PET container has a dual face: a transparent face for maximum UV-A rays collection and a alluminium face that absorbs the infrared sunrays augmenting the temperature and improving disinfection. The reduced thickness assists the transportation and the storage. The handle integrates the angular regulation needed to improve sun exposure depending in which latitude of the world the process is executed.

Designed with Alberto Meda
Year: 2006
Index Award 2007 - First Prize in the Home Category
Design and the Elastic Mind - Exhibition at MOMA New York


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Solar Bottle


products - conven

Airflow is a fancoil designed for the domestic environment and aimed to high end users.

We have developed the product from its initial phase to the engineering and the production process.
Its main innovation concerns the sostitution of the grill with a moving tile that allows the regulation and direction of the air flow.



Client: Airvent
Year: 2002

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Airflow


press
pubblications

Casamica . Italy . April 2005
Clarin . Argentina . February 2005
Interior Digest . Turkey . September 2004
Elle Decor . UK . September 2004
Abitare . Italy . July 2004
Ottagono . Italy . June 2004
Design Report . Germany . June 2004
Para Ti Decor . Argentina . May 2004
La Nacion . Argentina . May 2004
Interni . Italy . May 2004
Design Report . Germany . May 2004
Revista D&D . Argentina . May 2004
Revista Nexo . Argentina . May 2004
Interni Big . Italy . April 2004
Elle Decor . Italy . April 2004
Dove . Italy . April 2004
Casamica . Italy . April 2004
Corriere della Sera . Italy . April 2004
Interni . Italy . November 2003
Interni Big . Italy . April 2003
Dove . Italy . April 2003
Brava Casa . Italy . April 2003
AD . Italy . April 2003
AMC . France . May 2002
Mood . Italy . December 2001
Frame . Germany . November 2001
Interni . Italy . September 2001
DDN . Italy . September 2001
Gap Casa . Italy . August 2001
Clarin . Argentina . July 2001
Surface . US . April 2001
Pass Milano . Italy . April 2001
Kult . Italy . April 2001
Abitare Quotidiano . Italy . April 2001
Abitare . Italy . April 2001
Domus . Italy . March 2001
Quattroruote . Italy . February 2001
Free . Italy . February 2001
Domus . Italy . February 2001
ID . US . August 2000
Carnet . Italy . July 2000
Domus . Italy . May 2000

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exhibits
exhibits - fuori salone 2005

SUR is an exhibition of designers from Argentina, Brazil and Chile. It is posible ti see among others latest projects by Miki Friedenbach, Alejandro Sarmiento, Brion Experimental, Nudo Design and Francisco Gomez Paz with the chaise longue Apero.

Curator of the event Monica Cohen with the collaboration of Ruben Mochi and Cristina Morozzi

From 13 to 18th April in via Stendhal 65, Zona Tortona.

Salone Satellite 2004


exhibits - salone satellite 2004

During Salone del Mobile 2001 Francisco Gomez Paz exhibited the chaise longue Apero at Salone Satellite, the pavillion reserved for young designers.
During the show he was nominated for the Design Report Award 2004 and awarded with a Special Mention.

Special thanks to Gimena Gomez Paz and Esteban Roses for the support and hard work on those busy days.

Salone Satellite 2004


exhibits - fuori salone 2003

In April 2003, during Salone del Mobile, Sumampa launched the first results of a research aimed at rediscovering the genuine value of the craft tradition from the north of Argentina.

Among the new products it was presented Milagros, a coffee table designed by Francisco Gomez Paz realized in interlaced leather and iron legs.

Salone Satellite 2004
Foto Gimena Gomez Paz


exhibits - salone satellite 2001

For Salone Satellite 2001 Gomez Paz presented two lighting fixtures, Metro and Viva.

Metro is an innovative lamp that unrolls from its own packaging and is ready to be placed in any location. Light and young it suits perfectly modern lifestyles. Metro was nominated for the Design Report Award.

Special thanks to Pedro Olivera and Ricardo Figueroa.

Salone Satellite 2004


awards

INDEX Award . 2007 . First Prize in the Home Category . Solar Bottle
Design Report Award . 2004 . Special Mention . Chaise Longue Apero
Design Report Award . 2001 . Nomination . Lamp Metro
BMW/Domus “A key for future mobile solutions” . 2001 . First Prize . Concept Car Bi
ID Magazine Annual Design Review . 2000 . Special Mention . Biofilter
LG Competition Korea . 1999 . Honorable Mention . World Wide Music
LG Competition Korea . 1999 . Honorable Mention . Narciso Digital Mirror
Design Preis Schweiz . 1999 . Honorable Mention . Lamp Viva

contact

Francisco Gomez Paz

via Savona 123
20144 Milano

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