Student Notable

Furniture & Lighting Award

Core77 Design Awards 2024

Con Pan

Café con Pan, a pause in time. This take on the bistro chair seeks to mend pre-hispanic motifs with inviting pebble-like contours, the geometric with the organic. Much like the tradition of café con pan, this collection aims to play in the space between structure and irregularity.

This chair was designed, tested, and constructed over ten weeks. The design was executed in cherry wood due to its warm tone, which fits into a landscape of concrete walls and the desert geography of the designer's hometown in Mexico. It is also a nod to the cherry tree in front of the designer's childhood home in Virginia, tying together the two worlds that seem so far apart. The seat was carved using CNC technology, and the rest was constructed using the table saw, traditional joinery, and finally, hand shaping the contours using an angle grinder, hand plane, and a variety of files to refine the shape into its final pebble-like form. Handshapping allows the designer to explore edge conditions to influence the sensation of soft pebble contours while maintaining structure and intention.