Arts and crafts of Mexico in two leather and maguey stools by Peca

Trazo are two stools created for Peca – a design studio founded in Guadalajara in 2007 by Caterina Moretti – by experts in traditional Mexican materials and techniques. Two leather furnishings that evoke the classic saddles of charreada or charreria, a competition event typical of the haciendas of old Mexico, that was inscribed in 2016 in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

The leather bears a hand-engraved drawing by the abstract artist Luis Rodrigo Medina, also from Guadalajara, filled with maguey strands originary from Mexican desert. This fiber engraving, together with the beech wood legs and the leather seats, bring history, folklore and warmth to a more contemporary, linear and Nordic-inspired design. 

The recovery of local tradition and craftsmanship, and the use of raw, organic materials are the stylistic number of Peca studio, which is able to turn past into present in a fluid and original way and to translate the elements of nature into daily objects and furniture. 

These two stools, one 107 cm long and the other 58 cm long, both 42 cm heighted, involved different skills and professionals by showing how a single design product can magnificently merge art and technique, tradition and innovation. Designed by Caterina Moretti herself with Justine Trofléau, they saw a painter’s and a craftsman’s intervention in order to keep and tell, in a few centimetres, part of the great and fascinating culture of Mexico.