Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
Two years ago I started to work in my laboratory in Lacremò.
Lacremò is the dialect noun for a neighborood of Finale Ligure , where I live. So Lacremò is a toponym.
I love to think of it in this way, as a point on a map.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
I started with a minimum manual knowledge due to my father massive experience as a worker in shipyard, mixed with my experience as a designer and the big will to learn.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
The passion for bikes and cyclism is a great motivation, we can’t forget that it has been an important part in the past of our country both for what concerns cycling and the cyclistic productions.
Bricklayers wins the ”Giro D’Italia”. Cyclist that becomes designers and succesfull businessmen.
This is a story made of people who had the chance to run unknown roads. The heroic aspect and the social emancipation that the bikes brought, it’s still bringing is a vector of noble values.
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Unfortunately modernism and hyper technicism have distort this aspect, and that’s why I choose a different road, a more romantic and emotive road without ending in the melancholy of vintage. The spirit of vintage cycling fascinates me and
I would like to link to the future.
That’s the theme of my research.
I really like to have a wide open view, to think the bike as a way transport, trying to value the most important aspects of the materials and their use.
The most important part of a bike is the frame, the frame must answer a need.
We should consider it as an extention of our body, at the same time as a driver and fuel.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
The frame is a complex product.
I’m in the planning and realization of frames, filled brazed and conjuctions .
I’m the businessman and worker of a small reality.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
I like to define my laboratory as an experimental laboratory of artisan production.
We not only produce, we study with an eye on past, the tradition , innovation , melting together other arts to create a unique results. To enjoy the personal experience of freedom.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
Sections, tubes, angles, trail, wagon length, lowering the bottom bracket, are only few aspects that allows us to customize a frame, we add the measure and the new construction could start.
Everyone has its own style and interpretation, some answers come through experience, other through study and other with knowledge but there is quite never a unique response.
The only certain thing is that the bike is sweat and tears, it requires always a strong effort but it gives you more : new perspectives, wellness and freedom.
“Passion is the motivation of a unique object.”
Emanuele Barbaro
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