When it comes to design, there are innovators — and then there are visionaries. Fiam Italia belongs firmly in the latter. Founded in 1973 by Vittorio Livi, the company forever changed the language of contemporary furniture by transforming glass from a fragile surface into a sculptural medium.
Long before “innovation” became a buzzword, Fiam was experimenting with gravity, heat, and transparency. Its mission was deceptively simple: to shape the unshapable. Through a blend of artisan mastery and industrial ingenuity, the brand developed the art of curved glass bending, creating seamless, fluid pieces that appear weightless yet possess incredible structural integrity.
To watch Fiam’s process is to witness art and physics in dialogue. Sheets of glass are heated in high-temperature furnaces and hand-laid over meticulously designed moulds — a choreography of timing, temperature, and human intuition. The result? Tables like Rialto or Giano that float with crystalline precision, and mirrors such as the Caadre — a Philippe Starck masterpiece that has become an icon of reflective architecture.
Each Fiam creation is the product of collaboration between engineers, artists, and designers. Over the years, the brand has worked with greats such as Daniel Libeskind, Cini Boeri, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Patrick Jouin, translating pure material into emotion. Their work with Fiam demonstrates that glass is not merely transparent — it refracts the soul of light, bending it into living geometry.
Yet what makes Fiam so educationally rich — and so important to the history of design — is how it bridges science and craftsmanship. Its patented technologies, including the DV Glass technique (which layers and fuses glass sheets to produce unique textures and depths), have redefined durability and visual character in modern interiors.
For designers and collectors alike, Fiam Italia represents more than furniture. It is an essay on light, an exploration of how reflection, refraction, and curvature interact to shape perception.
At Royal Interiors Singapore, Fiam stands as a tribute to Italy’s timeless relationship between beauty and innovation. Each piece — clear, fluid, architectural — invites you to see space not as static, but as something alive.
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