Lema, a leading Italian design house, redefines hospitality through a seamless blend of aesthetic and functionality.
With a focus on customization, the brand collaborates closely with designers and architects to create unique spaces that resonate with guests. From opulent hotels to stylish student residences, Lema’s commitment to excellence is evident in every project.
Within this perspective, Lema positions itself as the ideal partner for the complete management of hospitality projects. Thanks to its close ties with the design community, investors, developers, and contractors, Lema is able to fully understand any specific requirement, adapting its language and production capacity to respond with a “tailored” approach to the demands of designers, hoteliers, and investors. This enables the translation of every aesthetic and functional request of the client into a wide range of custom-made solutions.
Lema’s philosophy is based on the importance of customization, a distinctive element that characterizes the brand and makes it a key player in the contract sector. The company excels in creating bespoke solutions across various design areas including hospitality, multi-apartment complexes, private residences, as well as public spaces for retail, businesses, and student accommodations.
Some of the most recent references demonstrate how Lema is not just a partner and furniture supplier but can also take over and collaborate at all stages of a project.
Among these is the collaboration with the Collegiate AC Group, a European leader in the creation of student housing, through which the company furnished and designed the new student resort in Milan’s Bicocca district. Lema not only provided all the furniture for the entire complex but also coordinated and supported the Collegiate AC Group’s interior designers and architects in logistical and construction organization, ensuring the project was completed on schedule. The partnership between Lema and Collegiate resulted in a collaborative effort that created 695 high-quality accommodations and welcoming, functional common areas.
Moving abroad, the company was chosen to furnish Alessi’s new concept store at Harrods, the renowned luxury department store in London. The contract project, curated by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi, required close collaboration with the prestigious entities involved to create bespoke proposals that interpret the designers’ creative vision and meet the client’s needs. Lema Contract successfully led the entire project, ensuring total customization of the space to comply with Harrods’ technical constraints and high safety standards.
Further confirming its strong presence in London, Lema was a key player in another significant project in the city center: Lost Property St Paul’s Curio Collection by Hilton, featuring 145 bespoke rooms and FF&E items.
Lema collaborated with interior designers Ica and Rani Ahluwalia of Key Interiors & Design to create this luxury facility. Thanks to Lema’s Engineering Department, custom furniture was provided for each room, ensuring a unique design that blends modern art and contemporary style.
Through various and numerous projects completed worldwide, the company highlights its ability to often anticipate tastes and international trends. It maximizes synergy with the Lema Casa division, which offers its extensive catalog, providing the benefits of mass production with the possibility of modifying individual products in all their aesthetic, dimensional, and material components to meet every specific client need. Additionally, Lema’s deep experience in modular systems ensures maximum flexibility and composability in offering customized furniture solutions for both day and night areas.
The Lema Contract team is committed to exceeding expectations and creating unique and distinctive environments capable of transforming clients’ visions into tangible and lasting realities.
About Lema: A Legacy of Italian Design
Now one of the best interpreters of Italian style in the world, Lema was founded in 1970 by the Meroni family, who still run it today on the strength of a tradition going back to the early post-war years. The group is composed of the home, contract and office furniture divisions with IOC Project Partners.
Lema was the first Italian company to develop a loadbearing support system in multiple finishes and the ‘Armadio al Centimetro’ (Wardrobe to the Centimetre), built to customer specifications. These two products are the symbol of the company’s focus on the client, which is now expressed in a complete catalogue that ranges from modular systems for the living and sleeping areas to free-standing furnishings that include tables, beds, seating and accessories, as well as the latest collections of upholstered furniture.
Products with a sophisticated appeal, all characterised by a wide range of personalisation solutions to meet the different aesthetic and functional needs of customers. aesthetic and functional needs of customers. In fact, what makes Lema distinctive on the international design scene is primarily its great ability to develop custom-made solutions, together with the greatest architects, for the prestigious contract projects that the brand attends to all over the world.