Giopato & Coombes is the partnership of Cristiana Giopato and Christopher Coombes. Giopato, born in Treviso in 1978, graduated in industrial design from the Politecnico di Milano and in architecture from the IUAV University of Venice. Coombes, born in Bristol in 1979, studied industrial design at Brunel University in London before moving to Milan. The two began collaborating in 2006 and formed Giopato & Coombes in 2016, following projects from conception through to production. They describe their aim as the synthesis between the emotion of conception and the pragmatism of innovation, with a preference for refined forms and noble materials. For Varaschin they designed BABYLON, an outdoor collection built on weaving: painted aluminium frames carry synthetic hemp rope at regular intervals, in sofas, an armchair with a vertical weave between its arms, a sunbed, a daybed, a pouf and a coffee table.
