Sublimio

Sublimio is a boutique branding studio in Rome where strategy and design work as one. Founded in 2009, it builds brands strong enough to face the market and last, because lasting effectiveness lives where meaning and aesthetics meet.Founder Matteo Modica, creative director and trained product designer, oversees creative direction and coordinates a network of senior generalist designers with specialist skills, assembled around each project's needs.The studio stays small by choice, taking on around eight projects a year to work directly with every client: no accounts, no middlemen, no delegation. It can say no when the fit isn't right. Its approach, beautiful thinking, echoes Bruno Munari's idea that beauty and usefulness should never be separated.Since 2019, Sublimio has worked with Nihonsakari, a sake brewery founded in 1889 and official supplier to the Japanese Imperial Household, creating Sakari sake, Sakari Gin and maikasui, a hand care line built around rice from sake production. The thread is not a specialization in one culture, but a patient cross-cultural process: understanding a brand's roots deeply enough to translate them without flattening them.In luxury real estate and hospitality, Sublimio has worked with The Missing Element, which brings together residences and boats in Miami, Ibiza and Costa Smeralda, and with Upstairz, a brand devoted to luxury assets around the world. The studio also created OODOS, a club for owners of the world's most exclusive vehicles.Sublimio also designed aprile, a suspended seat inspired by springtime, whose petal-shaped form gives the lightness of lifting your feet off the ground. Limited to 30+30 pieces, handcrafted in Italy, shown at Salone del Mobile and EDIT Napoli, and featured on Minimalissimo, ElleDecor, DesignWanted and Awwwards. For Sublimio, it proves that branding and product design come from the same instinct.