Natalini: STUDIO

Picture Frame Blu 13x18 cm

Blue is doing more than framing the picture

A photograph from last summer, a portrait that actually looks like you, or a memory that has spent far too long amongst thousands of images on your phone: the Natalini Blu photo frame from the STUDIO collection gives 13 x 18 cm photographs a visible place in your home. Made in Italy from wood, the frame features a 20 mm wide lacquered blue border complemented by a light, white-toned inner section. It is this contrast that gives the design its distinctive depth: rich blue creates a clear outline, while the lighter section gently draws the eye towards the photograph. The 13 x 18 cm photo size offers a little more presence than smaller standard formats and works beautifully for portraits, travel photography, family pictures or images with details worth seeing properly. STUDIO Blu is practical at the back, too. An integrated stand allows portrait or landscape display, rotating tabs make changing photographs straightforward, and a velvet-like covering gives the reverse a considered finish. Because there is something rather pleasing about a frame looking good even on the side nobody usually sees.

A touch of colour that knows when to be quiet

With its 20 mm wide profile, STUDIO Blu has enough presence to make an impression on a sideboard, shelf, bedside table or console without taking over the room. Blue and white introduce freshness into restrained interiors while also picking up colours already found in textiles, ceramics, art and other home accessories. The 13 x 18 cm format makes this Natalini photo frame particularly suited to favourite photographs that deserve to be shown at a slightly larger scale. Choose portrait orientation for a person, landscape for a sea view or that photograph of everyone gathered around the table: the stand at the back lets the image determine the direction. And when a new favourite replaces the old one, the rotating tabs make opening the frame easy. Memories can change without requiring the rest of the room to follow.

Italian frame culture since 1979

Founded in 1979, Natalini has built its reputation around photo frames and particular expertise in the tradition of marquetry. The Italian company's collections explore different colours, materials and decorative approaches, showing how varied the role of a picture frame can be within an interior. With STUDIO Blu, the focus is on clean lines and the graphic relationship between blue and white. The frame is made in Italy from lacquered wood. As no marquetry is specified for this particular design, the emphasis here is deliberately not on Natalini's traditional inlay technique, but on the quieter interaction of colour, material and proportion. That is precisely where STUDIO Blu finds its character: it has personality of its own while leaving plenty of space for the photograph. It is an approach that feels very much at home at LIVOSY, where objects are allowed to shape a room without telling it what to be.

Let the gallery grow at its own pace

On its own, STUDIO Blu creates a confident blue accent, yet the wooden frame feels equally natural within a personal arrangement of photographs and objects. Pair it with other Natalini photo frames in different sizes or place it amongst books, ceramics, glassware and a scented candle. The result becomes particularly interesting when colours are connected rather than precisely matched: blue alongside warm natural shades, white beside stronger accents or several frames filled with completely different favourite moments. Instead of a carefully choreographed gallery, you get a collection that can evolve with you. The Natalini STUDIO Blu photo frame for 13 x 18 cm photographs combines Italian manufacture, lacquered wood and flexible portrait or landscape display with colour that makes itself noticed without becoming loud. Which leaves just one rather difficult question: which photograph gets the spot?