Marco Campardo's process-based design practice uses peppers as moulds

London-based designer Marco Campardo rejects the traditional separation between design concept and fabrication. His "praxis-theory framework" treats making as a generative act, not mere execution. For Rome's Macro Museum, he produced 30 stools in five days using cardboard scraps and packing tape as moulds, now produced by Galerie Kreo. His latest project, Peperoni, uses actual peppers as moulds for molten glass, developed through educational workshops at Grymsdyke Farm. Campardo's work includes furniture from brass L-profiles (Elle collection), reclaimed Alpi veneer (George tables), and a dissolvable Selfridges display made from expanded clay and sugar. His approach challenges industrial design's reliance on standardized processes and costly tooling, advocating for experimentation accessible to young designers.