Background

Studio Giancarlo Valle is an International award-winning New York-based design company encompassing the worlds of architecture, interiors, and the decorative arts. With a holistic approach, the studio imagines projects that are refined, playful, studied, and unexpected—working with passionate clients to create indelible experiences.

In 2019, Giancarlo made his debut into Architectural Digest’s prestigious AD100 list, celebrating the industry’s top global talents. The studio has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Vogue, W Magazine, and Christies Magazine. Giancarlo has also been recognised in AD100 for three consecutive years since 2019.

Giancarlo grew up in San Francisco, Chicago, Caracas, and Guatemala City, and received his Masters of Architecture from Princeton University.

Signature style

With a holistic approach, Studio Giancarlo Valle imagines projects that are refined, playful, studied, and unexpected—working with passionate clients to create indelible experiences.

Showstoppers

His collection for Nordic Knots takes him back to the hand-painted furniture of his family home in Guatemala City, and to the childhood habit of sketching that never left him. The four rugs (Loops, Big Buds and All Hands among them) translate loose studio drawings into motifs that are at once ornate and organic: looping lines, swelling buds, a procession of naive hands running across a cut-out corner. Swedish rug-making is seen here through a Latin American lens, and the two folk traditions meet on shared ground, a deep, emotional love of colour. Fittingly, the collection was photographed in a 16th-century farmhouse in Hälsingland, whose painted murals answer the rugs’ own palette. Made by hand in soft New Zealand wool and produced in limited quantities, each piece reads less like a floor covering than a sketchbook page laid out underfoot.