Emmanuel Babled
Babled Design is the Lisbon-based studio of Emmanuel Babled. It consists of a pan-European team and production, collaborating with numerous European craft districts and leading to worldwide visibility. Driven by an anthropological interest and physical presence, it integrates observation of materials and techniques in their authentic surroundings committed to places and social conditions.
Babled Design creates artworks with the highest quality and experience in craftsmanship ability, by mixing ancient knowledge with high-performance technological tools to allow for sophisticated production processes to create iconic pieces and inspire the design community.
Explores technical heritage and know-how in a methodology that is based on coordination, speed, intuition, and knowledge, in order to revitalize the interest in craft production and career and promote crafted production towards the international connoisseur's top worldwide market.
The Babled Design signature is distinguished by original forms and excellence of materials resulting from a work process that celebrates traditional techniques respects the raw materials and is committed to the cultural and human characteristics of each production context.
A Ilegítima holds several pieces by Emmanuel Babled, notably glass lamps resembling “my boobs from the 50s”, as Anne likes to call them.