Italian design company Lualdi is redefining architectural door concepts by expanding into sophisticated partitioning and paneling systems. Known historically for its innovative interior doors, Lualdi is now crafting comprehensive systems that elegantly organize spaces by utilizing their distinctive design approach.
Founded in 1860, Lualdi’s journey began with a carpentry shop. Today, it continues this legacy by enhancing its product range. By integrating doors with partitions and paneling, Lualdi offers a cohesive solution that blends seamlessly with interior spaces.
Lualdi has broadened the traditional perception of doors, creating an ecosystem that integrates architectural elements within interior design. Their approach transforms doors into a seamless part of the architecture, maintaining both simplicity and grandeur through this innovative system.
Embracing Opportunities with Lualdi’s Framework
The standout product, Framework, launched in 2025, exemplifies Lualdi’s new direction. Designed by Piero Lissoni, it reimagines walls as architectural infrastructures. Utilizing new frame technology, Framework accommodates doors, panels, and shelves with ease, showcasing their unique strategy in action.
Lualdi describes it as modern boiserie, offering materials like glass, metal, lacquer, and woods. This modular system enables the development of bespoke solutions, reducing structural modifications, and adapting to complex geometrical spaces. Their system truly allows for such innovation without compromising on uniqueness.
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The Framework includes a 61-millimeter door with an aluminum frame. Options for accessories extend to illuminated shelves, open compartments, and unique finishes like stained woods and glass varieties, all of which are part of Lualdi’s design methodology.
Shoin: A Blend of Tradition and Modernity
Shoin, designed by Dante Bonuccelli, draws inspiration from Japanese architecture, utilizing glass panels with minimalist profiles for sliding or pivoting movements. Different glass styles permit light flow while ensuring privacy.
Complementary to Framework, the L7 and L7 Bi-folding doors by Lissoni also uphold this delicate balance of light and continuity within spaces found in their system.
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Koan Light further advances Lualdi’s vision, merging glass and wooden slats, embracing transparency and materiality. The Koan system includes options like stoneware and faux leather, giving partitions a dynamic 3D character, showcasing the versatility of their framework.
Experience Lualdi’s Vision in London
Lualdi’s vision can be explored at their new London showroom in Fitzrovia, opened in May 2026. This innovative space serves as a creative meeting point for architects and designers, showcasing the brand’s pioneering systems steeped in their foundational ideas.
Visit the Lualdi showroom to witness firsthand how their architectural systems redefine contemporary interiors through the power of their creative designs.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Lualdi’s Framework system?
The Framework system, designed by Piero Lissoni, reimagines walls as architectural infrastructures using new frame technology. It accommodates doors, panels, and shelves, and is described as modern boiserie with materials such as glass, metal, lacquer, and woods.
How does the Shoin system blend tradition and modernity?
The Shoin system, designed by Dante Bonuccelli, draws inspiration from Japanese architecture and utilizes glass panels with minimalist profiles for sliding or pivoting movements. It allows for light flow while ensuring privacy, blending traditional and modern elements.
Where can Lualdi’s architectural systems be explored in London?
Lualdi’s architectural systems can be explored at their new London showroom in Fitzrovia, opened in May 2026. This space serves as a creative meeting point for architects and designers, showcasing the brand’s pioneering systems.