Three Pablo Contour LED lamps glowing against a dark wall beside a black leather chaise

San Francisco · since 1993 · Authorized retailer

Pablo Designs USA

Award-winning lighting from Pablo Pardo’s San Francisco studio: sparse, useful and built to last. As an authorized Pablo retailer, every piece we sell is genuine and covered by Pablo’s own warranty.

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Pablo designs live in families: one idea, refined across pendants, table and floor lamps. Start with the look you love.

Pablo T.O lighting in a furnished roomT.ORotating wand of lightPablo Totem lighting in a furnished roomTotemOpal glass pendants and sconcesPablo Candél lighting in a furnished roomCandélCordless, candle-warm glowPablo Sky lighting in a furnished roomSkyDome pendants and flush mountsPablo Uma lighting in a furnished roomUmaLantern with 360° soundPablo Belmont lighting in a furnished roomBelmontBy Brad AscalonPablo Luci lighting in a furnished roomLuciPortable table and floorPablo Contour table lamp on a floating nightstand in a wood-paneled hotel bedroomContourWood-lined floor and table lamps
Pablo Pardo at work in his San Francisco studio

The founder

Pablo Pardo

Venezuelan-born industrial designer Pablo Pardo founded Pablo Designs in San Francisco in 1993. Before lighting he designed children’s roller skates for Fisher-Price and concept cars for Chrysler; since then his studio has collected honors from ICFF, NeoCon, Red Dot and the German Design Award, and SFMOMA holds his Piccola lamp in its permanent collection.

The Pablo rule: strip an idea down to its essence, then make it something you use every day for years.

Pablo values permanence over the disposable: honest materials such as marble, wood, felt and spun aluminum, and a firm rejection of the disposable mindset.

The designers

Pablo works with a small circle of designers who share its less-is-more view. Here are the people behind the pieces we carry.

Pablo Pardo, designer for Pablo
Pablo PardoFounder, San FranciscoDesigned: Brazo, Piccola, Elise, Cortina, Bel Occhio and the LIM family
Pablo Studio, designer for Pablo
Pablo StudioIn-house design teamDesigned: Bola, Swell, Circa, Nivél, Totem, Sky and Candél
Carmine Deganello, designer for Pablo
Carmine DeganelloAmsterdam and MilanDesigned: T.O, Solis, Talia and Uma
Peter Stathis, designer for Pablo
Peter StathisSan FranciscoDesigned: Link, Tube Top and Superlight
Brad Ascalon, designer for Pablo
Brad AscalonNew YorkDesigned: Belmont

Recognized by design juries

Verified awards for Pablo pieces we carry, as published by Pablo and the award organizers.

T.OFRAME Awards 2023, Lighting of the Year; Interior Design HiP Award 2022; Paris Design Award 2023; Architectural Record Best Lighting Products 2022
NivélInterior Design HiP Award 2023
CarouselCore77 Design Awards 2023, Honoree
Bola LanternEuropean Product Design Award 2022
CandélInternational Design Awards 2021, Gold
Sky DomeInternational Design Awards 2020, Silver; NYCxDESIGN 2020 Honoree
TotemArchiproducts Design Awards 2024
UmaGerman Design Award 2017; Good Design Australia 2016
CircaNYNOW Accent on Design Award 2013
SuperlightCore77 Design Awards 2018, Runner-up
BrazoIDEA 2008, Gold; Best of NeoCon 2007, Gold
PiccolaI.D. Magazine Gold Award 1993; SFMOMA permanent collection
Featured inThe New York TimesDwellArchitectural RecordInterior DesignAzureMetropolisFRAME
With the creation of Pablo Pardo's first product in 1993, he established a powerful and generative design philosophy. Since then, his core principles have informed the development of every light in the studio’s 25-year history. These products continue to move with culture while withstanding trends in design — and each one carries the underlying uniqueness that is distinctly “Pablo.”

Award-winning Pablo designs

Many Pablo pieces have been recognized by design juries: Brazo won Gold at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards and Best of NeoCon 2007; Link won IDEA Silver in 2009; Circa won the NYNOW Accent on Design Award in 2013; Carousel was a 2023 Core77 Design Awards Honoree; T.O won a 2022 Interior Design HiP Award and FRAME’s 2023 Lighting of the Year; Nivél won a 2023 HiP Award; Bola Lantern won a 2022 European Product Design Award; Candél took Gold at the 2021 International Design Awards; and Piccola is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA.