"Baglap" by Francesco Marcellino

Baglap is an object created from a careful observation of the habits of 'urban nomads' combined with a desire to enhance the extraordinary sensoriality and aesthetic qualities of Alcantara® with simplicity. Baglap is both a light, durable bag to protect laptops and documents and a “mobile desk” that can be used in many different situations. Baglap is an extraordinary object, with a sensual shape formed of a central structure in polyurethane foam, covered almost completely with soft Alcantara® giving it a beautifully soft, luxurious touch. It embodies the sensoriality and aesthetic and functional values that have always distinguished Alcantara®, in an original yet simple way. In Baglap, these qualities have found a natural fulfilment.

Biography of Francesco Marcellino
He was born in Treviglio, a town in the province of Bergamo, Italy, in 1984. In 2006 he graduated with honours in Industrial Design from Milan Polytechnic's Faculty of Design with a thesis on the ideation and development of an innovative Holter device. In 2006 he moved to Lund (Sweden), where he completed his first year of an Erasmus "Laurea Magistrale" (equivalent to a master's degree) at the IKDC - Ingvar Kamprad Design Centrum. He participated in the design and dressing of the “Post Fossil Fuel” exhibitions at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February 2007 and “Supermarket - Seriously Super Serious” at That’s Design during the Salone del Mobile in Milan in April 2007. During the summer of 2008 he worked in Geneva as designer for a major haute horlogerie house, developing a new collection of luxury accessories. He is currently working on his thesis for the Laurea Magistrale on the ideation and design of a hybrid personal computer, to be used in combination with a brand new concept of operating system, ITSME.