Giobagnara

Overview

Type: Product Collaboration
Year: 2025

Giorgio Bagnara built Giobagnara in 1999 around one narrow specialty: leather, in every hide he could get his hands on, from printed calfskin to skins most workshops won't touch. That specialty made him the person interior designers call when a project needs something built to spec, not pulled from inventory. Marble, wood, and metal have since joined the range, but the reputation still runs through the leather.

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The Partnership

This is Wearstler's first collaboration with Giobagnara, and her first time designing a bar cart at all. Italy has been a point of reference for her for years, and a workshop that had spent two decades mastering one material before adding others was, to her, a more trustworthy collaborator than one that had always worked broad. Depth first, range second — that was the order she wanted behind her own first attempt at an object this specific.

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The Maris Collection

Maris takes its name from the Latin for "belonging to the sea," and its forms from the same source: sea pebbles, coastline, the kind of shape that looks designed until you remember water got there first. Leather-clad trays, cake stands, and placemats sit next to chrome-finished coasters, ice buckets, and portable table lamps, in a material list — painted aluminum, burnished ashwood, stainless steel, marbled stone — picked to hold up outdoors without ever looking like it's trying to.

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Maris Bar Cart

At the center is the Ultimate Bar Cart, Wearstler's first: leather-lined drawers, satin nickel hardware, a cut-out frame, an extendable marble top, and wheels precise enough to roll from a living room to a pool deck without anyone noticing the transition. The rest of the barware runs in marble and sandblasted aluminum, including a set of Stacking Trays with a wave-like profile built to nest.