Kamanar
Year: 2018, for Foundawtion.
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 2022
Chaise S painted by Antonio Ballester Moreno
Chaise S painted by Leticia Feduchi
Chaise S painted by Guim Tió
Chaise S painted by Klas Ernflo
Chaise S painted by Claudia Valsells
Chaise S painted by Xavier Mariscal
Chaise S painted by Marria Pratts
Árboles at Marta Gallery in Los Angeles.
Solid Chaise S de especialidad.
Solid Echelle de especialidad.
Cajón Wally
Year: 2014 Produced by Teulat since 2026. Produced by AOO from 2014 to 2020.
Cajón Wally originates from the boxes used in film and advertising, known as apple boxes, versatile elements that can serve during shoots as support, seat, or step depending on the side on which they are placed.
Normales was a previous collection of basic pieces that inspired the final version of the Cajón Wally
First box, Cajón Normales
Cajón Wally brown MDF
Cajón Wally recovers that logic and transfers it to a domestic context, offering a piece with three usable heights (25, 35, and 45 cm) that make it a side table, footrest, or stool. Three of its sides also incorporate a circular hole that allows for easy transport and enables it to be used as a small container, as well as aesthetically connect with the rest of the collection.
Normales collection had a cable-roll
Cajón Wally red MDF
3MO, the previous version
Cajón Wally blue MDF
Urna conejera para Andreu y Berto en NSN