Our Story
La Livia didn't start in a boardroom. It started when two mothers began comparing notes about the everyday products they were replacing again and again.
How it started
It was a Sunday lunch. The kind where everyone ends up in the kitchen talking over each other. Olivia's mother and Tomás's mother were comparing notes: the coating on their pans kept scratching, kept wearing off, and they kept buying new ones every year.
Olivia, a food engineer, had been thinking about this for a long time. She knew the research on PFAS and heavy metals in coated cookware. She knew what happened when a Teflon surface overheated or scratched. What she didn't know was how to turn that knowledge into a product.
So she turned to the two people she trusted most. Her brother Marco, an architect who thinks in systems and materials. And their cousin Tomás, a product designer who had spent years making things that last.
She made them a deal: she'd handle the science, if they'd handle everything else.
“We weren't trying to build a brand. We were trying to solve a problem we couldn't stop thinking about.”Olivia · Co-founder & Food Engineer
Behind La Livia
None of them had ever sold anything online. Marco was drawing buildings. Tomás was designing products for other brands. Olivia was working in food safety. La Livia existed in evenings, weekends, and WhatsApp threads at midnight.
They spent two years testing materials, prototypes and ideas. For cookware, pure titanium kept coming back as the answer: no coating, no synthetic cooking surface, nothing designed to scratch or flake away. It became the material behind the first LA LIVIA product.
Marco designed the form: the balance of the handle, the curve of the pan, the weight distribution that makes it feel like a professional tool, not a compromise. Tomás refined every detail of the experience, from the texture of the surface to the packaging it arrives in. Olivia made sure that what touched your food was exactly what it claimed to be, and nothing else.
But somewhere along the way, they realised the idea behind La Livia was bigger than a single pan, or even a single material.
The real question was simple: could the things we use every day be made from better materials, with fewer compromises?
They still have their jobs. Marco still designs buildings. Tomás still works with other brands. Olivia still works in food engineering. La Livia is something they built on the side, because they believed it was worth building. That's not a weakness. That's the reason it exists at all.
What came next
La Livia started with cookware, but the question behind it was always bigger: why should the objects we use every day be made from materials we know so little about?
So we kept looking — at the kitchen, at hydration, and at the small rituals repeated every day.
Today, every new LA LIVIA product starts in the same place: with the material, the way it is made, and the role it can earn in everyday life.
The founders
We still have Sunday lunch together. The products may change. The conversations haven't.
Olivia
Co-founder · Food Engineer
Olivia has spent her career in food safety. She knew what was in coated pans long before she told the rest of us. La Livia was her challenge to the family: find a better way. She makes sure every material claim we make is one we can stand behind.
Marco
Co-founder · Architect
Marco thinks in materials, proportions and systems. He brings the same rigour he uses to design buildings to objects intended to live in the home for years, not seasons.
Tomás
Co-founder · Product Designer
Tomás has spent years designing products for other brands. At La Livia, he obsesses over the details that turn a useful object into something you genuinely want to keep using: proportion, texture, handling and experience.
Our journey
Two mothers talking about pans that keep scratching. Olivia listening, thinking: there has to be a better material for this.
She phones Marco and Tomás the same evening. “I have an idea and I need your help.” Neither of them said no.
Materials research, prototypes and testing. For cookware, pure titanium kept coming back as the material they wanted to build around.
The Pure Titanium Pan becomes the first expression of the LA LIVIA philosophy: better materials, thoughtful design and fewer unnecessary layers between you and the product.
Named after Olivia, and built around the belief that better materials should make everyday choices simpler.
New materials. New objects. The same standard. La Livia begins expanding into other parts of everyday life, while keeping the philosophy that started around that family table.
What matters to us
Material claims should be supported by evidence. We believe trust should be earned through clarity, not empty marketing language.
We look for durable materials and purposeful construction because the best products should earn a long-term place in your home and your routine.
Thoughtful products only matter when they work in everyday life: morning coffee, family dinners, water on the go and everything in between.
Explore La Livia
From the pan that started it all to the objects we use every day, every LA LIVIA product begins with the same question: can this be made better?
Thoughtful materials Honest construction Made for everyday life
La Livia Story
Three founders. One shared table. A more considered way to cook, built around better materials and everyday life.
Three founders. One shared table. A more considered way to cook, built around better materials and everyday life.
