La Cûpula is a Buenos Aires based editor of objects, which curates iconic design products for pop-up sales. We were comissioned to design and produce everyday objects for their latest concept store, along other fellow designers and makers.
The pop-up sale, was scheduled for early December 2024 at Buenos Aires National Arts Museum, and my job was to design fresh pieces that kept our escence.
My goal was to get simple to produce solid wood pieces, with fine woodworking details and refined enough to be sold at the museum’s shop.
I’ve always felt attracted to some concepts and it felt like the perfect opportunity to apply them.
|The beauty in thin wood resistance|
|Intersection of round and flat volumes|
|Combining different wood species|
Three products. A stool, a coat rack and A4-A5 drawing tablets.
All simple but with fine woodwotking details: Bent lamination, dowelling, half lap joinery and mortise and tennon.
The stool consists of a 4” guatambú block, crossed by a 3” incienso turned piece and a two-piece laminated lapacho seat.
For the coat rack we used the same 3” turned section but a 1,5” structure with dowelled vertical pieces.
A5 drawing tablets
Stool and coat rack
First prototype at the shop
4mm laminated lapacho for stool seats