about us

Ranieri is a research and production laboratory working with lava stone within architecture, design, and contemporary cultural projects.

Rooted in a territory shaped by the presence of a volcano, Ranieri develops its work from this condition: a complex and unstable material that requires study, time, and responsibility. Lava is not treated as a neutral surface, but as a material that actively participates in the language of the project.

Ranieri collaborates with architects, designers, companies, and institutions when material plays a real and conscious role within the project. Rather than offering standard solutions, the studio supports each project in the development of surfaces, objects, and applications where technical performance, process, and aesthetic outcome are fully coherent.

Ranieri’s work brings together production expertise, technical control, and aesthetic sensitivity. Every phase — from material selection to fabrication, from glazing to finishing — is carefully overseen, with close attention to tolerances, long-term behaviour, and the final context of use.

Not all surfaces are suitable for every application

and not every project requires lava. For this reason, Ranieri works by choice, not by adaptation. Dialogue with the designer includes the possibility of setting limits, refusing incoherent solutions, and protecting the project beyond its immediate realisation.

Alongside its work in architecture and design, Ranieri maintains an ongoing dialogue with the cultural sphere. Art, music, writing, and imagery are part of a broader research path exploring the relationship between material, process, and uncertainty, contributing over time to the brand’s identity.

Ranieri does not position itself as a simple supplier, but as a conscious interlocutor, capable of working within the complexity of the real without simplifying it.