Most know him in Rome as the lecturer at IED in the Interior Design department. Some know him as the designer at his own studio, Jaim Telias Studio, as well. Few, however, know his past – living between Chile and Israel til he was eighteen years old. A piece of the puzzle which equates to much more than the interior decoration to his passport.

Veneer Alé Lamp. Designed by Jaim Telias Studio.

A Modern Pendant Lamp Using Folded Veneer Makes the Alé Light Fixture by Jaim Telias Studio a Sure-Fire Salone Hit for 2011

This year at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Italy, Jaim Telias will be showing his Alé Lamp along with a few other goodies – like a balancing vase with an unusual support. Alé is made from folded wood veneer pieces that look like a tiny geometric conundrum of sorts – spinning and folding around its pendant-style framework.

As Telias says of his latest creation, “A golden foliage of wood leaves composes a mysterious lamp. Each leaf (unit) can be tied and untied one to an other as to create your custom-shaped Alè.” Jaim Telias graduated with an Industrial Design major in Jerusalem and afterwards, won a master’s degree in Interior Architecture at the IED (European Institute of Design) in Rome in 2006. For the past five years now, he hasn’t left, and has since begun his own design studio, focusing much of its work on prototyping, besides the interior design classes he teaches at the IED.

Falling right in line with his basis for creating great objects, the Jaim Telias Studio site describes his natural approach to design saying “materials are decisive elements of the project, and his research is deeply based on new experimentations and original solutions. With their own character, his products are simple and minimalist, with a dissonance.”