San Francisco-based industrial designer Pablo Pardo has rapidly gained international recognition in the past 10 years, developing, producing and marketing a series of lamps devoted to simplicity and function in the modern world. With a Bachelor of Science from the University of Cincinnati’s top-notch design program, Pardo has designed products for a number of large corporations. His company was recently awarded best lighting collection for 2004 at the International Contemporary Furniture Show in New York.

Pablo Pardo’s devotion to using simple materials with a simple and useful intention, embracing technology at the highest level. His highly recognized designs which include his first company offering 1993,the Piccola lamp, which won a Gold Award in 1993’s ID Magazine, and an ingenious waste paper receptacle constructed of a single piece of die cut birch plywood which resembles a wing shape. Both are in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.