Piegatto’s Roots: Returning to Where Design Began

This fall, at High Point Market 2025, Piegatto unveils Roots a new collection that feels less like a product launch and more like a return. A return to where design began: to the gestures, materials, and instincts that shaped the way humans first lived and interacted with space.

Roots isn’t about nostalgia; it’s about memory the kind that lives in our hands, in the way we touch objects or gather around them. The pieces in the collection revisit humanity’s earliest forms of expression, reimagined through Piegatto’s sculptural lens.

The Collection

The Roots Modular Sofa was designed to move with life. Its wooden connectors let each module anchor or separate, creating endless compositions from a solitary corner to a generous open lounge. It’s furniture that adapts, much like the people who use it.

Lighting in the collection includes the Panelitos Floor Pendant and the Oni Lamp, two sculptural objects that bring warmth and atmosphere to space. Their bamboo surfaces diffuse light like sunlight through leaves simple, poetic, and alive.

And then there’s Folia Moss, a wall sculpture made from more than 4,000 hand-placed bamboo “scales.” Inspired by the slow, natural spread of moss, it turns a wall into something that breathes a living tapestry of texture and color.

The Phi Chair is Piegatto’s first fully upholstered dining chair, rising organically from the floor. Wood remains visible as the chair’s skeleton, while the seat alone is softly upholstered a quiet balance between structure and comfort.

Craft, Process, and Intention

Every piece in Roots begins digitally shaped with advanced CNC technology but it’s the hand that gives each one its soul. Finishing, joinery, and upholstery bring warmth back into the precision of the process.

Materials are natural and sustainable: birch laminated wood for structure, bamboo for lightness and rhythm, and recycled polyester for upholstery. Each choice reflects Piegatto’s long-standing belief that design and responsibility must coexist.

The Story of the Lena Table

Among the new pieces, one design carries a more intimate story: the Lena Table. Sandra Ovalle describes it as an organic object functional, yes, but born from memory and emotion.

“My inspiration came from my mother, María Elena lovingly, Lena,” Sandra shares. “I remembered looking up at her as a child, wanting her to hold me. The table’s curves have no end, no straight lines just infinite points that meet and flow. It’s about continuity, about affection that matures but never fades.”

The Lena Table captures that feeling perfectly: soft, fluid, and deeply personal. Light slides across its surface like a memory revisited always familiar, always changing.

Why Roots Matters

Roots is more than a collection; it’s a statement about where design comes from and where it’s headed. It reminds us that the most contemporary forms often begin with the oldest instincts to build, to connect, to belong.

At High Point Market 2025, Piegatto isn’t just showing new pieces. It’s sharing a story about time, craft, and the human need to shape the world around us.