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The Kokeshi by Kléos collection emerges from the encounter between Japanese tradition and contemporary design, shaping sculptures in natural stone that combine symbolism, material, and research.
Inspired by traditional Japanese lucky dolls, the Kokeshi collection reinterprets this archetype through the use of Italian natural stone. Each piece, handcrafted and produced in limited edition, becomes an essential sculptural object where material and meaning intertwine.
Veins, surfaces, and colors make each element unique, while the names — inspired by Japanese flowers — transform the collection into a poetic narrative that connects cultures, time, and memory.
Kokeshi are traditional Japanese wooden dolls, originating in northern Japan. Essential in their forms, without limbs, they represent simplicity, harmony, and a strong symbolic value linked to protection and affection.
The Nodum collection exists at the point where matter stops being continuous and begins to relate. Travertine is treated as volume — interrupted, cut, and displaced to create connections that define each piece.
Nodum refers to the point where something joins, but also where tension is generated and force is concentrated. It is where matter ceases to be mass and becomes relationship, where one element depends on another to exist. Travertine, treated as volume, is interrupted, cut, or shifted to meet another element — or itself — in a new form. It is within this encounter, sometimes resolved in the stone itself and other times through a precise metal gesture, that the character of each piece emerges.
This principle runs through the entire collection, from the modular table system — where compositions can expand while maintaining visible structure — to more compact objects such as magazine holders, side tables, or benches, where the connection is expressed through a single gesture.
Nexus explores the concept of connection between material, form, and function, generating a system of objects where different elements and materials interact dynamically.
Nexus interprets design as a system of relationships, where each element is conceived as a meeting point between volumes, surfaces, and materials. Travertine, as the primary material, interacts with wood, metal, and glass, generating both contrast and continuity.
Each piece becomes a small-scale architecture, built through joints, stratifications, and relationships between solids and voids. The result is a collection that is both essential and structured, capable of expressing a balance between design rigor, material presence, and contemporary vision.
Kléos creates design collections starting from travertine as a primary material, reinterpreted through dialogue with other materials and contemporary languages. Through collaborations with international designers, it brings together craftsmanship, precision, and research to shape timeless objects where matter becomes identity.
Elisabetta Di Maddalena is a designer and creative director whose work focuses on the dialogue between material, form, and meaning through essential, timeless objects.
Francesc Rifé Studio works through reduction and precision. An approach where material and detail shape a distinctive language based on order and a constant attention to how things are constructed.
Cosmos is an international architecture and design studio developing projects where space, material, and systems integrate into a contemporary and interdisciplinary vision.
