Two New Sideboards Join Lamborghini’s Growing Home Collection
At Salone del Mobile, Lamborghini and Italian woodworking house Riva 1920 unveiled two new sideboards for their joint Authentic Living furniture collection, designed by Karim Rashid. The pieces are called Inkline, intended for living spaces, and Rivar, aimed at the office. Both join an existing lineup of a chair, table, sofa, desk, and bookcase that launched the previous year, bringing the total to seven distinct pieces.
Another sideboard debut would not normally warrant much attention, but the expansion reveals something about where Sant’Agata’s ambitions actually lie. Lamborghini wants to be present in its customers’ homes, not just their garages. And the way these pieces are designed and built, borrowing the company’s automotive design DNA but translating it through traditional Italian woodcraft, tells us more about Lamborghini’s brand philosophy than any press release could.
Supercar Lines in Solid Walnut
What makes the Authentic Living collection worth discussing on a car site is how literally it borrows from Lamborghini’s automotive design vocabulary. Rashid drew inspiration from visiting both the Riva 1920 and Lamborghini factories, observing the interplay of robotics and hand craftsmanship at each facility. The result leans into fluid, dynamic forms that echo the aerodynamic surfaces of Lamborghini’s road cars, executed in walnut, solid wood, and black leather rather than aluminum and carbon composite.
The Inkline sideboard features rounded sides and tops wrapping six dovetail-jointed drawers, with shaped fronts that mirror the lines of the existing Finesse bookcase. Rivar takes a different approach: two side doors flank central drawers, and a practical open compartment sits beneath the top, all rendered in what Lamborghini describes as sinuous, rounded lines recalling the Klip desk from the original collection. Both pieces receive a finishing based on oil and natural wax of vegetable origin with pine extracts.
Those dovetail joints on the Inkline are a small but telling detail. Dovetailing is old-school joinery, the kind of thing a furniture maker does when the piece is meant to last decades. Pairing that permanence with forms borrowed from cars that depreciate the moment they leave the dealer creates an amusing tension, but it also signals that Riva 1920 brings genuine craft credibility to the collaboration rather than simply stamping a shield logo onto flat-pack furniture.
The Automobili Lamborghini and Riva 1920 'Authentic Living Collection' is showcased with a wooden console and decorative items.
What ‘Informal Luxury’ Actually Means Here
Lamborghini positions the entire collection under a concept it calls Informal Luxury, a phrase that sounds like marketing shorthand but points to something specific. These are not branded furniture pieces that scream their origin from across the room. The walnut and leather palette is restrained. The forms are sculptural but organic. Remove the branding and a visitor might admire the craftsmanship without ever guessing the connection to a supercar manufacturer.
That restraint is deliberate, and the Finesse bookcase proves it by offering both registers at once. Part of the original collection, the bookcase now comes with an optional carbon fiber finish, about as direct a material link to Lamborghini’s automotive world as furniture can offer. Carbon fiber on a bookcase is functionally unnecessary, of course. Its purpose is identity. For the buyer who wants the connection to be visible, the option exists. For everyone else, walnut and leather carry the design language without the overt signaling. Offering both choices simultaneously is a more sophisticated approach than simply licensing a logo, and it reveals how carefully Lamborghini is calibrating the distance between supercar and sideboard.
Riva 1920 Brings the Credibility Lamborghini Cannot Manufacture Alone
Riva 1920 is recognized as a manufacturer that blends traditional craft skills with modern technology and innovation. The company works in solid wood, a medium that demands different expertise than the composites and metals of Sant’Agata. This is precisely why the partnership functions: Lamborghini contributes design language and brand gravity, while Riva 1920 contributes the material knowledge and production capability that would take decades to develop internally.
Katia Bassi, Lamborghini’s Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member, framed the logic plainly: “Shared values such as design, technological research, craftsmanship and quality of materials make this partnership genuine, authentic and consistent.” Karim Rashid, operating as the translator between the two companies, stated that the collection seeks to achieve fluidity and a fusion of organic and pure forms without sacrificing comfort. That ambition is evident in the way both new sideboards avoid sharp, aggressive angles despite drawing from a brand whose cars are defined by them. The furniture softens Lamborghini’s visual vocabulary into something that belongs in a living room, which requires a designer confident enough to reinterpret rather than simply copy.
What This Means for Lamborghini Owners and the Brand’s Direction
Lamborghini is far from the only supercar brand extending into lifestyle products, but the distinction with Authentic Living is the specificity of the partnership: two Italian manufacturers and one designer producing a curated furniture line rather than a broad licensing play.
For owners already familiar with the Ad Personam customization program for their cars, the collection represents a natural extension of that philosophy into living spaces. The carbon fiber bookcase option, in particular, reads like a nod to the kind of buyer who specifies forged composite on their Aventador’s interior trim. Whether that buyer exists in meaningful numbers remains an open question. Lamborghini has not disclosed pricing for any piece in the collection, nor has it detailed where the furniture can be purchased or what lead times look like.
The broader signal, though, is strategic. Lamborghini continues to build a lifestyle ecosystem around its automotive core, and the Authentic Living collection suggests the company views that ecosystem as something worth investing in and expanding rather than a one-off experiment. The fact that a carbon fiber finish appeared on the bookcase within a year of the collection’s launch hints that material experimentation will continue. Whether the next addition is another piece of furniture or a new material option that further bridges the gap between showroom and living room, the direction is set. Sant’Agata is designing for the whole life, not just the drive.
