BOISBUCHET RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
ESTO ESTUDIO
SEASON 2025
ESTO is a creative studio based in Madrid, founded in 2023 by Amalia Wakonig and Guillermo Borreguero as a continuation of their previous project, 240×120. Their work sits at the intersection of design, construction, and material research, developing objects, furniture, installations, and scenographies that emerge from the relationship between form, making, and context.
The studio combines a precise visual language with constant technical experimentation, designing and fabricating its own pieces using materials such as wood, metal, textiles, and lightweight structures. Among their recent projects are the furniture collection Disguise Series 00, presented at Alcova Milano or the design of seating for Wametise (ARCO 2025) in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies.
For ESTO, places like Boisbuchet represent ideal environments where design, nature, and learning through making come together, offering a fertile framework to further develop their practice and expand the boundaries of their creative research.
Photo : ESTO Estudio
During their residency at Domaine de Boisbuchet, ESTO Estudio developed a project that took as its starting point the annual shearing of the Domaine’s sheep, an event that took place in early June, coinciding with the beginning of their six-week stay. Using this raw material freshly shorn wool, they proposed a research and creation process that connected the natural cycle of the site with contemporary artisanal production.
To carry out the project, the team equipped themselves with traditional wool-working tools, such as carders, spinning wheels, winders, and hand looms, and trained using audiovisual materials and historical documentation on various traditional techniques for wool processing and transformation.
This technical approach allowed them to understand the materiality of the fiber and explore its potential beyond conventional weaving. The result was a collection of furniture and lighting objects conceived entirely from the Domaine’s wool, in which the material was integrated with lightweight wood and metal structures, acquiring unexpected tactile, luminous, and acoustic properties.
The pieces, combining formal experimentation and artisanal sensitivity, were presented in an open exhibition in the Domaine’s granary, the space where the sheep had been sheared just weeks earlier.
Photos : Manon Arrougé