Lorenzo Queipo de LLano

Lorenzo has lived under the ceiling and in palaces, in Sudanese huts and in some sophisticated New York loft. His curious eyes learn from everything he sees and what began as a simple exercise in personal design soon became a factory in Kenya with almost thirty workers.

With a bohemian and somewhat unpatriotic character, his way of working is sometimes misunderstood. He boasts of never having had a boss, but also of never having worked as one; he considers that discipline is overrated when it can be replaced by intelligence and planning; he acknowledges having made many mistakes throughout his life, which in turn have been his teachers, so he thinks that by now he should be a sage, and confesses that some of the things he does are perfectly wrong and that this is part of his unique style, which is difficult to copy.

He transfers his most personal image to the spaces he designs, the fruit of his love of animals and travel, and he gives them unique pieces designed by him. But of all his decorative keys, perhaps the night lighting, which brings back African memories of fires, candles and bonfires, is the most important. These subtle lights of the African night always dance in his memory and he tries to transfer them to all his spaces.

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