LINEA: Fabric as Architecture
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Between São Paulo and Milan, Juliana Pippi has developed a design language defined by lightness, sensoriality, and emotional precision. Working across interior design, object design, and creative direction, her practice moves fluidly between disciplines — forming a cohesive creative universe where space, material, and identity are deeply intertwined.
Her LINEA Collection for Unilux marks her debut on the international design stage — presented at Residenza Vignale during Fuorisalone 2026, the collection explores the curtain as a spatial and architectural device: one that filters light, frames proportion, and introduces rhythm into the interior landscape. Developed in close collaboration with Brazilian artisans using sustainable raw materials, LINEA draws from the traditions of Italian tailoring, translating proportion, drape, and precision into a refined textile design language across four colour families: Panna, Pistacchio, Cioccolato, and Grigio. Embroidered words by Brazilian poet Bianca Ramoneda add a quiet literary dimension, bridging Portuguese and Italian.
In this interview, Pippi speaks about the origins of LINEA, the creative dialogue between Brazil and Milan, and her sensorial approach to contemporary interior and textile design.
Words: designeers
april 2026
WEBSITE: julianapippi.com
INSTAGRAM: @julianapippi
DESIGNEERS
How do you describe what you do?
Juliana Pippi
I create spaces, objects, and narratives that bring together sensoriality, material identity, and a softer, more considered way of living.
DESIGNEERS
What is design, at its most essential, for you?
Juliana Pippi
A means of softening life. The interiors and objects I create are built around beauty, presence, and emotional connection, not performance. Design should mean something to the people who live inside it.
DESIGNEERS
What feeling should a completed space leave behind?
Juliana Pippi
Calm, authenticity, and a sense of belonging. As if the interior could breathe alongside those who inhabit it.
DESIGNEERS
Where did LINEA begin?
Juliana Pippi
In the quiet discipline of Italian tailoring - its silent precision, the way structure can exist without weight. I became fascinated by that balance and began asking whether the same principles could translate into interior space and textile design.
DESIGNEERS
When did fabric become architecture for you?
Juliana Pippi
The moment I understood that it could do more than dress a window. Fabric shapes light, frames space, and shifts atmosphere - and it does so with a material subtlety that almost no other element can match.
DESIGNEERS
What did Milan give the collection?
Juliana Pippi
Clarity and confidence. It reinforced the dialogue between rigour and softness, and positioned fabric not merely as decoration but as a true interior design language in its own right.
“I removed everything ornamental, everything loud, everything unnecessary. LINEA needed to express itself through proportion, materiality and movement alone.”
Juliana Pippi
DESIGNEERS
What did you have to remove to make it work?
Juliana Pippi
Everything ornamental, everything loud, everything unnecessary. LINEA needed to express itself through proportion, materiality, and movement alone. Excess would have destroyed it.
DESIGNEeRS
A material you instinctively return to:
Juliana Pippi
Natural fibres - cotton, linen, wool, and handcrafted textures. They carry warmth, truth, and memory in a way that synthetic materials cannot replicate. There is an honesty to natural textile materials that I find irreplaceable.
DESIGNEERS
What does Brazilian craftsmanship mean to you?
Juliana Pippi
Soul, ancestry, and cultural intelligence. It carries the gesture of the hand and the memory of place. There is a beauty in Brazilian artisan craft that comes from both considered imperfection and meaning - and that combination is extraordinarily rare.
DESIGNEeRS
What are you building beyond this launch?
Juliana Pippi
I am expanding into creative direction, hospitality design, and collectible design - deepening projects that sit at the intersection of Brazilian identity, contemporary living, and artisan craft. The work is becoming more layered, and that feels right.
DESIGNEERS
A place in Milan during Design Week you always return to:
Juliana Pippi
Brera. It holds a particular tension between intimacy, experimentation, and beauty that I find nowhere else during that week.
DESIGNEERS
A designer, artist, experimentation, or maker you admire right now:
Juliana Pippi
Domingos Tótora - for the poetic strength of his practice and the way he transforms raw material into something that feels genuinely emotional.
DESIGNEERS
An object in your home you would never part with:
Juliana Pippi
A handmade piece that carries memory. Anything created by human hands holds a soul that no industrially produced object can replicate.
