The collaboration between Benjamin Hubert and De La Espada presented the opportunity to develop a range of interior products utilizing the skills and knowledge of artisan craftsmen. The result is a range of crafted products with an industrial aesthetic, made utilizing tactile materials where the hand of the maker can still be seen and valued. This is embodied in hand-turned marble with the organic marks of the cutting tool clearly visible, woven automotive leather with hand-stitching and overt timber joinery detailing. In this collection there are five pieces of furniture.
Cargo – a leather paneled dining/occasional chair with hand-crafted self-supporting leather panels attach to a light Ash timber frame with mechanical fixings. Quarry is hand-turned, thin-walled marble pendant lights with roughly finished interior, to add texture and describe the story of stone production. Coracle is a hand-woven leather lounge chair with stitched automotive leather and a leather-wrapped steel frame. Gabion is a pedestal dining table with a metal cage base containing the ballast that creates the structures stability. Finally there is Silo, a turned Portuguese granite storage or side table for magazines, soft goods etc finished with an ash surface.
