Donghoon Shon Contemporary Side Table from "BSP" Series Plastic and Solvent 2021

Rodrigo Pinto Oval side table From the series “Tierras Hipnóticas” (Hypnopompic lands) Manufactured by Rodrigo Pinto Santiago de Chile, 2020 Produce...

Manufactured by Fango. Colombia, 2023 Yaré fiber and metal structure. Measurements 42 x 42 x 50h cm 16,5 x 16,5 x 19,7h in Provenance Fango Studio, Medellín, Colombia. Exhibitions Casavells 2023. Concept The Ibuju collection projects the synergy of designing and storytelling, an essential intention of Fango’s creative director, Francisco Jaramillo. The series stems from concern over the indiscriminate logging and overuse of the native woods from the endangered green lung of planet earth, the Amazon, a jungle increasingly fading from the world. Looking for alternatives to build functional furniture in native materials, Jaramillo and the weavers of Fango discovered the renewable Yaré fiber. Yaré is a fiber commonly called “vine", a root that grows around the trunks of trees in the Colombian Amazon. These fibers are used by local indigenous communities in southern Colombia for handcrafted weaving, which inspired Jaramillo to translate the native aesthetics and geometries of primitive wooden...