Wow, what a month! Design Festival in London, Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Paris, Milan… Lots of new styles, shapes, materials and colours to be discovered, recurrent and new emerging trends. We compare fashion vs. furniture – two fields that have more in common than you might think.

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ALBA owes its name to Federico Garcia Lorca’s famous play The House of Bernarda Alba. On the first scene of the first act Bernarda’s house is described; “White room, thick walls, ‘enea’ chair”. The enea (straw) chair was once the de-facto chair in many countries around the world. A simple wooden frame with hand woven straw around the seat and backrest. A workhorse chair used as a basic dining chair and favoured by flamenco guitar players.

With ALBA we wanted to create an homage to the traditional enea chair. Taking its soul and giving it a new body. A light and strong aluminium skeleton with contemporary lines but always respecting the simplicity and character of the original classic.

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Well, after pretty much a year of work, the exhibition is finally up in Tokyo. Ignacio curated and designed this exhibition for the Spanish Institute of Commerce (ICEX) in collaboration with Mormedi design in Madrid to showcase the latest work of over 35 Spanish designers.

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Having somehow managed to survive the London Fashion Week followed by the London Design Festival, we thought that it would be fun to treat them as a single event and look for trends that would connect them both. If you ask us, the result is more interesting than looking at each one separately… maybe they should mix things up a bit next year.

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Here are a couple of pictures from Motorola’s old studio in London. Read more »