JE: Even though my parents didn’t work in artistic vocations, both my grandparents did. My grandmother was a ceramic teacher and my granddad a blacksmith. I remember that visiting my granddad’s metal workshop felt like visiting an amusement park.

The Hortensia Armchair ended up taking on a life of its own. How did that happen, and did you expect it would happen?

AR: It happened naturally. Our mission with Júlia was to bring Hortensia Armchair to life and afterwards show our creation to the world. The rest took place organically without us being directly involved.

At what point did you, Andres, realise you needed Julia’s expertise for Hortensia?

AR: I knew I needed to team up with someone for this project. I contacted lots of different production teams and manufacturing partners, but nobody was feeling confident about achieving the same look as the renders. Then I thought of Júlia, who was my friend and is a product designer that focuses on textiles, and together we created a completely new production process to make this chair.