Five pieces from Hubert and Espada

Furnitures by Benjamin Hubert and De La Espada
Furnitures by Benjamin Hubert and De La Espada

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.

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