Layla Mehdi Pour

Layla Mehdi Pour is a product designer from Turin. She graduated from Tehran University of Arts, majoring in Industrial Design, and later headed to Italy to study, graduating from IUAV in Venice in 2008. She then went on to pursue postgraduate studies in eco-efficient product design at Turin Polytechnic.

Layla is currently building her career and her work focuses on reinventing everyday objects and turning them into innovative and novel pieces. She has exhibited at Milan Design Week, London Design Festival and Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, among others. Notable works include the SOUNDWAVE JASMINE acoustic panel for Offecct, for which she had a clear vision: "I tried to capture the poetic rhythm of nature and mix it with more geometric triangular shapes that can be combined in different ways to create new expressions and compositions."