NERU TOTEM STOOL 5, by Rebeca Cors

Rebeca Cors is a modern furniture designer offering a fresh perspective on the interplay between utility and art. She creates abstract sculptures as well as sculptural stools and side tables designed to bring art into everyday life. Each piece is made out of beautiful natural materials like wood, obsidian and marble, all imbued with a sense of balance and harmony.

Cors was born in Mexico in 1988. She graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México with a degree in industrial design in 2010, in addition to earning a design certificate from New York University in 2009. She founded her company, CORS by Rebeca Cors, in 2012, and spent time studying studio art at Central Saint Martins in London in 2013.

Cors seeks to preserve traditional crafting practices and create pieces that showcase and treasure her culture. All the sculptures and furniture produced by CORS are handmade by skilled Mexican artisans using local materials. 

Cors has exhibited extensively in her home country, including at Design Week México and the Zona Maco contemporary art fair. She has participated in Milan Design Week, Venice Design Week and NYCxDESIGN.

In 2021, Cors was named an Architectural Digest Design Icon and was listed on the AD100. That same year, she was awarded the Interceramic Award.

On 1stDibs, find Rebeca Cors decorative objects, seating, tables and more.

Rebeca Cors (México,1988). Cors' work oscillates between sculpture and function, studying its limits and meeting points. As a result, Cors creates Abstract Sculptures -and- Utility Sculpture. The materialized compositions embody simplicity and balance. Simplicity is not a lack of content – but the synthesis of the complex. The intention of the artwork is to emanate peace. The art work's origin comes from a place of inner peace, the materials and hands that materialize the piece add the same intention – as a result, the works convey and propagate this serenity. Human beings surround themselves with objects through their existence; some charged with meaning and emotion, that virtuate the space they inhabit, transmitting emotions that words fall short to describe; emotions that lead us to a state of contemplative meditation, in which the world around us seems to disappear for an instant, time vanishes and we enter this intimate human-object moment, where a non-verbal dialogue with the sculptural piece takes place.