Miami Art Week is known for bringing together the art community’s biggest buyers, gallerists, and some of the world’s heftiest price tags. But just a few steps from the 1.4 million-square-foot Art Basel Miami Beach, art enthusiasts can wander over to Design Miami, a smaller gathering of design connoisseurs featuring collectible design galleries and meticulously crafted exhibitions.
Read MoreMexico City-based design studio David Pompa is known for creating unique designs using honest materials that celebrate the essence and craftsmanship of Mexico. The studio’s latest lighting design, Meta, launched during this year’s Design Week Mexico, comprises a volcanic rock normally used for molcajetes, the Mexican version of the mortar and pestle which is used to make foods such as guacamole.
Read MoreSculpted in the traditional method developed by Mexican stone artisans, the stark black color and teardrop-shaped base of the Mura table by Bandido Studio make it a strong visual element in any room. Designers Alejandro Campos and Joel Rojas were inspired by visits to Tecali de Herrera, a municipality nearby the studio’s base in Puebla that is known for its marble artisanship. According to the studio, Tecali comes from the Náhuatl word tecalli, meaning stone house.
Read MoreIn a nod to Europe’s ever-growing gourmet market trend, Boho Food Market was recently inaugurated in Bogota’s foodie neighborhood of Usaquen.
Read MoreThe duo behind Mexico City-based Vidivixi, Mark Grattan and Adam Caplowe, launched their latest furniture collection in a 19th century mansion in the city’s Roma Norte neighborhood. The centerpiece of the AW18 Collection, which marks the studio’s phoenix in Mexico City, is the Docked en Río bed, featuring a tufted cotton frame wrapped around an elegantly folded base inspired by traditional Japanese furniture, tropical Modernism and art deco.
Read MoreThis year, designers at Inedito combined new and traditional materials, reinvented sculptural forms, and diversified the functionality of common objects, establishing trends for what is to come in Mexican furniture design. To follow are some standouts from 2018’s Inédito. designweekmexico.com
Read MoreNow in its 10th edition, Design House is probably the most popular event if you’re attending October’s Design Week Mexico, with more than 20 interior design and architecture firms joining together to transform an abandoned house into a fabulous weekend getaway.
Read MoreFor the creation of its first lighting collection, Mexican studio acoocooro was inspired by ancient, fanciful locations, distant memories and emotional experiences. Each of their unique pieces were designed to tell a story, stimulating feelings of nostalgia and expanding the imagination while providing a richness of materials and textures that exteriorize an otherwise whimsical design.
Read MoreChilean design studio Moshi-Moshi’s latest “Curves” collection is a departure from the studio’s typical straight-edged origami products, with the new products featuring wave-like folds that take inspiration in the curvature of flora, particularly liliales and iracia flowers.
Read MoreThis summer, design studios Cinco Sólidos, Colette Studio and Duque Arquitectura joined forces to open the doors of the newest edition of The Blue House in the San Patricio neighborhood of Bogotá, providing the city with a spot that caters to local art and furniture lovers and presents exclusive pieces with an aesthetic that differs from the local offer.
Read MoreWelcome Back is the latest collection by Panama City-based Fi design studio, led by architect and creative director Sofia Alvarado.
Read MoreValencia-based studio Masquespacio’s style seamlessly fits the youthful model behind Dutch hotel group The Student Hotel, a new concept in hybrid hospitality that offers design-focused co-living and co-working options for students.
Read MoreTaking place inside London’s impressive neoclassical landmark, Somerset House, and with the theme ‘Emotional States,’ the month-long international forum gives reason to why societies are becoming ever more aware the power of design as an agent of social change and economic growth, highlighting a number of hot topics that demonstrate how design affects each aspect of our lives, from social equality, sustainability and pollution to migration, energy and innovative urban solutions.
Read MoreInspired by the concept of travel and cultural diversity, AEI Arquitectura e Interiores designed these travel-inspired corporate offices for software giant Globant in Bogotá.
Read MoreDiseño Colombia is an initiative by Artesanías de Colombia that carefully curates contemporary artisan design in Colombia, selecting emerging and established designers whose distinct style is linked to the artisanal techniques of the ancient Colombian masters.
Read MoreMedellin Design Week’s primary satellite fair is Bodega Central, which this year presented over fifty instances of local and international design in an open-air warehouse in downtown Medellin. Here are kriteria’s top four.
Read MoreThis year’s Medellin Design Week brought world-renowned designer Karim Rashid to Medellín, a testament to the success and innovation the city has been credited with in recent years, one that has furthered its worldwide notoriety to rival that of other design-famous cities.
Read MoreMexican design studio Bandido Studio has collaborated with designer Cesar Núñez to fashion the Bo lamp, a tactile-sensitive table lamp with an abstract sculptural quality to it.
Read MoreEstudio Persona has tapped into their Uruguayan roots to create Flow, a distinctly neutral and minimalist furniture collection that favors the absence of color to the usual Hispanic cliché of sun-soaked skies and vibrant, highly saturated tones.
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