For Design Week Mexico 2026, design studio 2×1 displayed works by French and Mexican designers on plinths within the gardens of Casa Ortega, a not often opened personal residence designed by native architect Luis Barragán within the Forties.
The Artistic Immersions France-Mexico 2026 exhibition featured furnishings and design objects by over 30 designers.
It was the results of three years of residency applications during which French designers journey throughout completely different areas of Mexico to work with native artisans, craftsmen and studios.
The items, which embody an assortment of furnishings, luggage, vessels and extra, have been displayed throughout a system created by Paris- and Mexico Metropolis-based studio 2×1.
The studio labored with Mexican supplies firm New Fibers to create dark-red plinths product of Polyroca, a plastic panel product of recycled post-industrial laminated cardboard waste.
The staff additionally created extra in depth show items made of business steel buildings and material awnings.
The works included a 2026 stool by French designer Fanny Serouart and Taller Maya, a bunch that connects Mayan artisans with international markets, and vessels created by French designer Matali Crasset and Mexican studio And Jacob.
Different collaborations offered embody a vibrant yellow steel chair by Paris-based design group Corridor Haus and Mexico Metropolis-based studio Neko Design, created in 2024.
The works have been distributed within the corners and open verandas of the gardens of Casa Jardín Ortega (Casa Ortega), Luis Barragán’s private residence that predated the extra famed Casa Luis Barragán, which sits simply subsequent door within the San Miguel Chapultepec neighbourhood.
Designed between 1942 and 1947, Casa Ortega was a home for the architect in his 40s. He experimented with completely different motifs and buildings in the home that he would later implement in Casa Luis Barragán, however it’s distinguished by its expansive gardens.
Its caretakers think about it “Barragán’s best-kept secret”.
Native silversmith Alfredo Ortega Rojas bought the property in 1947 after Barragán moved out, giving the home its identify.
At the moment, Casa Ortega is privately owned and stewarded by Ortega’s descendants and household, together with native architect José Manuel Bárcena.
The household retains Casa Ortega comparatively restricted to guests, as it’s presently inhabited. For Design Week Mexico 2026, nonetheless, it’s internet hosting excursions and has opened the gardens for the Artistic Immersions exhibition.
Supported by a bunch that features the French Embassy in Mexico, the Artistic Immersions residencies concentrate on “200 years of cultural, mental, inventive, and financial change” between Mexico and France, with the intent to mix conventional and up to date design.
Artistic Immersions France-Mexico 2026 was curated by C Cúbica Arquitectos, whose co-founder Andrea Cesarman organises Design Week Mexico and was a founding member of the occasion eighteen years in the past.
Dezeen beforehand rounded up eleven designers that used shocking sustainable supplies at Design Week Mexico 2025 and ten noteworthy exhibitions from the week in 2023.
The images is by Juan Hernandez until in any other case acknowledged.
The Artistic Immersions France-Mexico 2026 exhibition is on present at Casa Ortega from 5 to 25 October. For extra occasions, talks and installations in structure and design, go to the Dezeen Occasions Information.
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