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Inside Fernando Laposse’s radical design experiment in rural Mexico


ByCrafts magazine

28 August 2020

Creating everything from colourful cornhusk marquetry to sisal monsters


Crafts magazine

28 August 2020

  • Crafts magazine
  • Film
  • Design
  • Sustainable craft

Watch Fernando Laposse and his collaborators at work in this film, by Pepe Molina

For its relaunch issue – out now – Crafts magazine transports us to the tiny village of Santo Domingo Tonahuixtla, in the sun-baked mountains of south-eastern Mexico, where designer Fernando Laposse is pioneering an extraordinary project that combines making and agriculture. Working with Indigenous people and using local crops such as maize and agave, the London-based Mexican designer is showing how craft can transform everything from farming and communities to livelihoods and ecology.

In this short film, shot by Pepe Molina, catch a glimpse of Laposse and his collaborators creating objects that are both sustainable and playful: from hairy sisal benches and colourful corn-husk marquetry, right through to a shaggy monster made from agave fibres.


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