Design Talent: Elisa Ossino

Sicilian architect and designer, Elisa Ossino founded her eponymous design studio in Milan, working on commercial and residential interiors, product and set design, and art direction. Her design approach combines geometric abstraction with a signature surrealistic taste, focusing on a multidisciplinary vision of design. To inspire Elisa’s compositional style is a figure of scenic suspension, recurring in the weightless design of each intervention.

Essential lines and geometries are the distinctive features of her designs, giving to the space they are located in a deep scenographic feeling.

Since the creation of her Milanese studio in 2006, she has developed a style that plays on contrasts. Geometric and light lines confront the intensity of monochrome structures. Each creation is the result of a meticulous research also based on her passion for art: from the metaphysical geometry of Giorgio De Chirico to the chiaroscuro technique of Caravaggio’s paintings. The result is a final composition in which the furniture and objects created resonate with the space around them.

Between interior design and furniture creation, she kept working on multidisciplinary projects to explore new ways of contemporary living through the design of surfaces and the scenography of multi-arts exhibitions. Her works have been published in Italy and abroad and exhibited in prestigious locations and galleries. In 2016, some of her design projects were exhibited at “W-Women in Italian Design” for the 9th edition of the Triennale Design Museum.

Over the years she has received several national and international awards including the ‘EDIDA‘ 2020 - Elle Deco International Awards since 2019 she was included among the ‘Top 100 Interior Designers of the year’ by AD.