Our work begins with process.
About L’AVIVA
Materials are active participants in shaping form. Through long-term collaboration with skilled workshops and makers, we work within established techniques while allowing space for variation, experimentation, and evolution—tradition functioning not as reference, but as a working methodology that informs proportion, structure, and restraint.
Based between New York and Mexico City, the studio operates across contexts and cultures, with proximity to both contemporary design practice and deeply rooted making traditions. This dual presence shapes how we work: attentive, iterative, and grounded in daily, hands-on exchange.
Portrait by Genevieve Garruppo
L’Aviva is anchored by a studio team working together as the core of a larger, interconnected network of collaborators, workshops, and partners. The work reflects shared authorship and sustained relationships, developed over time through trust, continuity, and collective problem-solving.
Studio team, left to right:
Jess Falconieri — Director of Business Development
Allyson Threatt-Peters — Design Director and Partner
Fabiola Sánchez Sales — Creative and Showroom Coordinator
Laura Aviva — Founder and Creative Director
Katy McCombs — Operations Director
Sam Abdolahzadeh — Business Development Manager
Our work begins with process.
Materials are active participants in shaping form. Through long-term collaboration with skilled workshops and makers, we work within established techniques while allowing space for variation, experimentation, and evolution—tradition functioning not as reference, but as a working methodology that informs proportion, structure, and restraint.
Based between New York and Mexico City, the studio operates across contexts and cultures, with proximity to both contemporary design practice and deeply rooted making traditions. This dual presence shapes how we work: attentive, iterative, and grounded in daily, hands-on exchange.
L’Aviva is anchored by a studio team working together as the core of a larger, interconnected network of collaborators, workshops, and partners. The work reflects shared authorship and sustained relationships, developed over time through trust, continuity, and collective problem-solving.
Studio team, left to right:
Jess Falconieri
Director of Business Development
Allyson Threatt-Peters
Design Director and Partner
Fabiola Sánchez Sales
Creative and Showroom Coordinator
Laura Aviva
Founder and Creative Director
Katy McCombs
Operations Director
Sam Abdolahzadeh
Business Development Manager
Portrait by Genevieve Garruppo