Jorge Penadés (ES)
My Rural Office Landscape
August 4th – August 10th 2024
Jorge Penadés Spain
Jorge Penadés (b. Málaga, 1985) is a research-driven practitioner who designs new possibilities for our built environment. Deeply rooted in the Mediterranean landscape, his office engages in objects, spaces and ecologies. Often inventing materials and techniques, the main ambition is to develop work that has not yet been possible to be developed.
Recent projects include Camper’s store next to the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2023); the exhibition The Final (Group) Show, co-curated with Matylda Krzykowski at Dropcity in Milan (2023); a limited-edition furniture collection for Berluti, LVMH (2021); a vase collection for Spanish manufacturer BD Barcelona (2019); and a glass chair for The Future Perfect gallery in New York (2019).
Jorge has delivered lectures at leading cultural institutions – including the Victoria & Albert Museum – and his work has a solid international recognition in the form of design awards and media coverage: T / The New York Times Style Magazine listed him as one of the best 16 “things” to see during Milan Design Week 2017. His Structural Skin project is part of the permanent collection at the Vitra Design Museum.
www.penades.xyz
The Workshop
In everyday life we are probably spending too much time at our desks, mostly interacting with a screen-led device. It is time to immerse ourselves in nature and put our hands to physical work!
The goal of this workshop is to revitalize our boring office landscapes, with nature not only as an inspiring starting point for the project but also as matter and form for its results.
We'll work with two materials only - clay, which we extract from Boisbuchet's soil, and aluminum, which we recycle from empty drink cans. While earth can be used just for moulds in which we pour melted aluminium to generate our desired objects, it may also be used to create the forms which, after a firing process, become the final and fully functional products themselves.
The outcome can be a collection of different objects: trays, containers, smartphone holders, lamps, and a whole range of other utensils - you choose. In any case, back at home, a souvenir of Boisbuchet will be part of your brand new and exciting office environment.