Chairs made from volcanic rock, pigmented concrete furniture and touch-sensitive lamps were among the prototypes presented by studios PLDO and Savvy during this year's Design Week Mexico.
The two companies teamed up to work on PL:VV ? a collection of experimental furniture and lighting.

Shown as prototypes, the designs come in a wide variety of styles, colours and materials. They include chairs made from flat slabs of colourful volcanic, which are arranged perpendicular to one another to create legs, seats and backs.
Concrete pigmented with a light pink hue is used for a chunky, modular shelving unit, and a pair of semi-cylindrical side tables that can be positioned flush against a wall, or fitted together to form a larger stand.

The team said the set was influenced by the brutalist architecture movement, which previously informed designer Liliana Ovalle's decorative concrete objects and patterned textiles by Custhom. Painted and untreated wood, metal mesh and coated aluminium are also the eclectic range of chairs, some of which feature leather or fabric-upholstered seats.

A large steel chest of drawers developed for a museum archive features storage compartments that roll out on both sides, and are held by a heavy frame of overlapping bars.
Lighting designs include mushroom-shaped table lamps, which have touch-sensitive stems that turn the bulbs on and off with a gentle tap. Their tops are also concrete.

The PL:VV designs were displayed across several rooms of a histor...