2020 / Client: Mexa / Materials: Steel, nylon cord and palm leaves / Project assistant: Karla Rosales / Photography: Santiago Vega

Inspired by the traditional Mexican equipal chair, especially the mestizo version.

Through the years, this vernacular equipal chair has become an iconic element among the Mexican popular culture and has been used in a wide range of places, from residential to commercial spaces, decorating, personalising and enhancing the vernacular Mexican identity.

The traditional equipal chair took and adapted the leather on the backrest and seat from a friar chair, which was a popular european seat from the XVI century. Likewise, Mestiza replicates this feature through an essential and steady metal structure and a rhythmic woven textile, creating an elegant, light and contemporary version that highlights the essence of the mestizo merging.

This new version maintains the elegance, form and the distinctive structure, which has an U- shaped base at floor level, three legs and a backrest that changes to an armrest.