Cala resin collection features folded plant pots and stripy tables
Mexico City's Mónica Calderón Studio has called on architects, designers and artists to use resin for a collection of furniture and homeware, which includes stout plant pots, and tables and stools in colourful gradients.
Local architects Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin, Mexican designer Moisés Hernández, Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo and Los Angeles-based designer David Wiseman all contributed designs to the Cala collection, which launched during this year's Design Week Mexico.
Mónica Calderón Studio, established by designers Mónica Calderón and Úrsula Verea in 1999, specialises in products made from polyester resin and tasked the participants to come up with new approaches to the same material.
The results pair resin with marble, wood and bronze, while following the aesthetic and technical styles of each contributor.
"For 19 years we've had our studio, collaborating with a lot of designers," Calderón told Dezeen. "We focus on one material because you can design and use it for different shapes, designs, colours and finishes."
"It's a product where you can explore all the possibilities and come up with any design," she added. "We've really become the experts on resin and so this time we partner up with creatives to [team it] with marble, wood and bronze."
Farca and Grappin ? founders of Ezequiel Farca + Cristina Grappin ? teamed up with Hernández to create two tables and a stool. They feature blocks of resin in di...
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