Lara Bohinc

After a decade-long stint with Cartier, exploring sculpture through jewellery, Lara Bohinc embarked
upon creating functional pieces for living. Finding the larger medium so compelling, upon working on
private commissions, Bohinc launched her own studio in 2016 to dedicate her practice to exploration
of functional sculpture and design.

Fantasy fused with function forms the genesis of Bohinc’s contemporary design practice, feeding an
obsession with the deconstruction and reconfiguration of form, expressed in the variety of finest
materials. Bohinc signature is a mix of contradictions: bold yet light, graphic yet fluid, angular yet
feminine. The studio creates work of iconic beauty that honours traditional principles of craft and
marries those with its expertise in modern manufacturing techniques.
Bohinc's design palette varies in scale from small to very large objects and she produces unique
pieces to unlimited editions.

She has engaged in permanent public commissions such as Friendship Bench commissioned by
Kensington and Chelsea Council for the Golborne Forum London, installed in 2017, as well as
private commissions such as Haunted and Metropolis Chandeliers for Mandrake Hotel in London in
2017.Bohinc’s obsession with material and research has taken her around the globe including a
residency in Murano, Italy where she has worked with local glass blowers on a series of pieces for
Venetian Hotel Bauer; to Wajima, Japan where she worked with a small community of Urushi
craftsmen to create works that have been exhibited at Gallery Fumi for the London Design Festival
in 2018.

The studio has collaborated with Swedish rug manufacturer Kasthall in 2018 to on a textiles
collection entitled From the Sun to the Moon, with Roll and Hill on a collection of lighting titled
Moonrise, with Lapicida on a series of marble tables and accessories, as well as with Skultuna for
brass home accessories, and finally with Driade on a collection of ceramic vessels.
Bohinc’s first retrospective solo exhibition at MAO Ljubljana, Slovenia (Museum for Architecture &
Design) was held in 2018 and she has exhibited at the Eye of the Collector; and with Gallery Fumi at
PAD, Nomad and Salon Art and Design.

Bohinc Studio has successfully launched Since the World is Round in 2018, Planetaria in 2019
(celebrating 50 years of man landing on the moon) and Peaches in 2022 (which took inspiration from
female body) during FuoriSalone in Milan. The Studio also showed during London Design Festival in
2019 and subsequently in September 2021 with the first edition of the Afternoon Tea collection and
with the second edition exhibited at Design Miami in December 2021. The latest body of work titled
Utopia, which questions how we might live if we coexisted in harmony with nature, has been
awarded Miami Design District Commission 2023 and shown throughout the Miami Design District
and in front of Design Miami show in December 2023. This was Bohinc's largest body of work and
first public commission in USA.
Mircea Cantor