Inspired by the subtle frequencies of everyday life. Rooted in natural materials, simplicity, and essential forms; stripped of anything unnecessary. Each piece is born from instinct and shaped by what feels true. For those who connect with quiet beauty and who find something familiar in them.

Sand-cast aluminium: the grain of the Somnia table

Run a hand over the Somnia Low Table and the surface is faintly rough. It was cast in sand, not milled, and the mould leaves its grain in the metal. That texture is the clearest statement of what Giselle Vanessa Johnson does: one material, one process, no finish added to hide the making. The Somnia is the piece people look for first among her designs, and it sits in the coffee tables of the gallery as the only one in cast aluminium. Everything on this page is made by hand in Italy.

The Tusa Bed is king-size, in solid walnut or in liquid metal, and its dimensions can be adjusted to the room; a matching bench is optional. The Cavallina Bench sets Florentine leather on polished stainless steel. For the wall, the Velo Shelves carry a slab of Marquina marble on liquid-metal arms, sold singly or in groups of two or three, and the Candy Bookshelf stacks lacquered wood shelves between bronzed metal columns, in a bronze or a silver frame. The Lago Wall Mirror is liquid metal again, on a wood base finished in real silver leaf; it hangs among the statement mirrors presented by The Oblist. Giselle Vanessa Johnson describes her starting point as the subtle frequencies of daily life, which in practice means stainless steel, aluminium, walnut, marble, cement, leather and upcycled linen, used without disguise.

The Plume Aluminium Floor Lamp welds a brushed aluminium shade to a polished aluminium frame (a wall version exists, and the floor lamp can be had with an upcycled linen shade on a concrete base instead). The Xoria Floor Lamp, tall or short, hangs an upcycled linen shade from a stainless steel structure and refers to the henna lamps of Morocco. Then two small things. The Ovo Egg Rack is folded from a single sheet of stainless steel. The Lotus Candle Holder began as a broken cement vase, drilled through and fitted with a heated steel nail. Giselle Vanessa Johnson kept the break rather than throwing the vase away.

The Oblist lists Giselle Vanessa Johnson within its Italian-made furniture and lighting. Production is by hand, and the Tusa Bed is sized on request. Interior designers and architects specifying the Somnia table, the Velo Shelves or the Plume lamps for a residential or hospitality project apply through the Trade Program. New releases from Giselle Vanessa Johnson are added here as they come out of the workshop.