“I want to help people, I want my work to mean something to them”.

Maiden is a small reality born in 2020, is a different way of creating memories with objects from the past brought back to the present. A union between psychology and design. One of the things Denise Giglio loves most to do is not just turning desire into something visual, but listening to your stories. It’s about more than creating a cool space and having fun. Especially in recent times, a lot of people have a new appreciation for their home spaces because they’re spending much more time there.

Academically validated at the European Institute of Design in Turin, Italy. It took her long time after completing her diploma to create Maiden. After studying, she wanted to leave, and so she moved to Amsterdam to ‘restart’ a new life. But only thanks to travelling in Australia, she had time to think, and decided to set up her own business.

Photo Credit: Romain Laurent

“I was able to analyze the house as an image of the human body: the door as a passage, the window as an eye, the kitchen associated with the stomach, the living room the central part of the chest, the ceiling with the head, cellar with feet…"