Atelier Nienē is a design studio based in Trieste, Italy.
Objects carry the memory of the places they come from.
Stone carries geological time.
Craft carries generations of knowledge.
Architecture carries the memory of how people inhabit space.
Design begins with the reading of these traces.
From Trieste, in the border landscape between Italy and Slovenia, where materials, languages and traditions intersect, relationships between place, material and architecture are translated into contemporary objects.
We work from the awareness that the objects we create will outlive us. This shapes what we choose to produce and how we make it. Each object is developed through the study of its material and form, and made in collaboration with local artisans whose knowledge defines the process.
Objects remain as records of material, time and place.