Change is not only a constant in the contemporary design world, it’s also highly celebrated.

Alongside the global design community, when leading Italian furniture brand Minotti announced its two new creative directors earlier this year, Studio Como excitedly embraced the new leadership and its bold vision. How this leadership change would precipitate Studio Como’s long-held ambition to open a space in Aspen couldn’t have been guessed, but several months later, that dream is opening its doors.

Studio Como has been working with clients in Aspen for two decades and has strong ties to the valley. In recent years, design director Laura Folgoni began to notice a dramatic shift in the city’s full-time residency. “It used to be that people traveled seasonally to Aspen, and their shopping reflected that. But since COVID, more and more people are living there year-round and investing in the design community in a different way,” she says. “Reasons for us to have a permanent presence in Aspen have been growing with the changing population and new architecture.”

Lovingly referred to by the design consultants as the Living Room, the Aspen space has a different concept than Studio Como’s other Rocky Mountain showrooms. Centered on Minotti’s newest collection by Tagliaferri and co-creative Hannes Peer, the highly-considered space is set up to accommodate intimate gatherings of local or traveling design professionals and clients. “This space gives us an opportunity to show guests who Studio Como is and what we can do,” Laura explains.