Design
De la Forma
Handmade furniture and objects
De la Forma It's a design project focused on the creation and manufacturing of objects, born from the need to express and create through objects. Leo and Pau develop pieces through manual processes, producing each object themselves in their workshop, in Córdoba, Argentina. Their work is based on closeness to the process, small-scale production, and the construction of their own language that runs through all their objects, even when they're designed for different uses, contexts, or clients.
How would you describe what you do?
Pau: We are industrial designers. We want to work on objects, create things, and live surrounded by objects made by us.
Leo: When we work with small studios just starting out, it's like making a canvas for someone who's going to paint, we create the skeleton and they adapt it.
How do you let go of your design?
Leo: In the design process, we like interdisciplinary work. We present a first concept to the client, and a dialogue begins so they can appropriate it and modify it.
Pau: We believe the object never loses our language. We always leave a trace in each object, even though it's designed for a specific person and context.
Leo: When you see it in retrospect, certain gestures remain from specific moments we're going through. For example, that shelf was one of our first products.
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Photography credits: Repose Studio.
Repose Archive is a creative direction journal documenting processes and projects across art, design, architecture, and hospitality.