- Coo. Poetic design at the service of humanity.
For Óscar Hagermanthe teacher of social design, the furniture is the smallest of the architectures. “When leaving the University I went to work at the Cooperative Emiliano Zapatain Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, For those I made designs of almost all the pieces of a house. ” One of them was the dining room chair Coo, In 1965, who received an award from Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade. Like the chair of the picture Van Gogh. “My design has to do with it, but I took care of comfort and its manufacture, which was very simple. The artisans copied it and started selling it on the sidewalks, in the markets. ” With the design of Fulf, Hagerman discovered that he wanted to share his life with his people, sit next to her, heat his hands in front of the fire, speak without a hurry of the daily days, simply be part of his daily life.
Courtesy of Matthai Architecture, Art+Design
- Mexico chair. Molten duality in steel.
In the words of Diego Matthai, «Ideas are like sparks that appear.» It was in this way, in the early 1970s, after having manufactured art-objects, sculptures, accessories and furniture in chrome stainless steel, that the architect Matthai glimpsed the shape of this Mexican piece. Inspired by the traditional chair of our country, manufactured by hand and in force over the centuries, the creative applied the proportions and essence of this timeless design in the Mexico chair, Made of chromed steel and tissue tule, and today one of its most identifiable creations, which stands out for the duality of its materials. In it, tradition and avant -garde, crafts and technology merge into a single element.