French design studio Hall Haus has recreated several furniture and object designs with slight differences added by local designers and fabricators such as Neko during Design Week Mexico.
Called Design Mixtape, the exhibition at Territorio Gallery in Mexico City showcased work in a wide range of materials, from hand-crafted wood to metal and 3D-printed resin work.
Hall Haus has curated an exhibition of its collaborations with Mexican designers
The concept was a continuation of Hall Haus's participation in the annual Vision & Tradition showcase in 2023, where the firm was one of many French firms to work with Mexican artisans to produce a distinct piece.
Using the same model of multi-national collaboration, Hall Haus built out a whole show, opting to use the funds usually dedicated to shipping pieces for a show to fund the production of previously conceived Hall Haus designs in slightly varied forms, working with locals to remake ? or remix ? the designs locally. The works on show featured interpretations of work from Hall Haus's archive
Hall Haus co-founder Sammy Bernoussi, who led the project, compared the process to the one between beat-makers and rappers.
"We took the example of the beat maker who makes samples for rappers, and the rappers who adapt to the sample, to the beat," Bernoussi told Dezeen.
The mixtape concept applies to Hall Haus's commitment to cross-cultural design, as many of the group are Parisians of African descent, and belief in music as a ...