Year: 2021, together with Ester Morro and Juan Alba for Esment.
Café Inca is a restaurant for the Esment foundation located in the center of the island of Mallorca.
We proposed a tough and open space with red and green as primary colors. Binissalem stone, ceramics, metal and wood to the fullest and in the most raw way possible.
Foundawtion is a non-profit organization that carries out vernacular projects to address architectural needs in economically disadvantaged areas. CEM Kamanar, led by the Daw Office architecture studio, is the first project of this foundation: a school for more than 500 high school students in Thionck Essyl, a village in the Casamance area, south of Senegal.
This manual is a project in collaboration with Bendita Gloria for the foundation. More than the result of the work done, these pages contain everything that was necessary for the manufacture of the furniture collection designed for the CEM Kamanar school.
A collection that has sought the most optimal relationship between efficiency and comfort, prioritizing making things as easy as possible for each stage of the process: from design, material selection, construction, and/or maintenance.
Chaise S and L prototypes
The school in operation in 2020.
Throughout the design and manufacturing period of all the furniture, workshops and related projects were carried out to raise funds and promote the project.
A good example is L'Art de Construir, a workshop organized by Ester Rovira and in collaboration with Claudia Valsells. During a week and with a group of more than 20 children, more than 30 chairs from the collection were manufactured and painted.
Installation during the Dakar Art Bienal 2022Chaise S painted by Antonio Ballester MorenoChaise S painted by Leticia FeduchiChaise S painted by Guim TióChaise S painted by Klas ErnfloChaise S painted by Claudia ValsellsChaise S painted by Xavier MariscalChaise S painted by Marria PrattsÁrboles at Marta Gallery in Los Angeles.Solid Chaise S de especialidad.Solid Echelle de especialidad.
Construction workers used to build a small stool made with 4 or 5 pieces of wood. Its shape and size can vary slightly, but it's always something simple, basic and crude.
Manolito is a reinterpretation, a synthesis of these objects led to the domestic sphere. The result is a very simple object without a clear function. It is a small bookcase unit, a stool, a small table, or a step to easily reach higher areas.
20x30x25cm or 20x60x25cm sizes. Both in solid pine or MDFManolito first prototypes and mock-upsManolitió, a Xmas version