Rayuela
Press Release StoreRayuela arrives after the experience of the Prima table where we wanted to reduce the number of pieces needed to build a table to the minimum.
Traditional tile designs can spread infinitely by just repeating a single shape, creating patterns by combining different colors of the same material. The most efficient form, offering the greatest possibilities, is the rhombus. Three of them make a hexagon which is the best way to cover a surface. Using three colors you get a fascinating optical effect.
By putting together these two principles, we obtain the idea for this product: making a stool from a single basic piece (a leg with 1/3 of the seat), which repeated three times becomes a stool and many of them united create a borderless surface with infinite pattern combinations.
At the very beginning of the project, playing with geometry was fundamental in order to find the appropriate shape. Then, we started to experiment and apply geometry to different materials and finishes which would slightly alter the product. Consequently, the project turned into research of materials and the different manufacturing processes associated with them.
It was not only pure geometry, but a deep study about different materials and those subtle modifications which determined a production process or another.
- Rayuela Combinations. Video by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Solid wood Rayuela stool. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- 4 Rayuela’s. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- Recycled Rayuela combination. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- 3 metals Rayuela. Photo by Alfonso Herranz + Alicia
- Double Game Exhibition. Photo by Gonzalo Muñoz
- 3 metals Rayuela stool combination. Photo by ACdO
- 3 metals Rayuela stool combination. Photo by ACdO
Rayuela
Rayuela arrives after the experience of the Prima table where we wanted to reduce the number of pieces needed to build a table to the minimum.
Traditional tile designs can spread infinitely by just repeating a single shape, creating patterns by combining different colors of the same material. The most efficient form, offering the greatest possibilities, is the rhombus. Three of them make a hexagon which is the best way to cover a surface. Using three colors you get a fascinating optical effect.
By putting together these two principles, we obtain the idea for this product: making a stool from a single basic piece (a leg with 1/3 of the seat), which repeated three times becomes a stool and many of them united create a borderless surface with infinite pattern combinations.
- Rayuela Combinations. Video by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Rayuela. Photo by ACdO
- Solid wood Rayuela stool. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- 4 Rayuela’s. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- Recycled Rayuela combination. Photo by Falkwin De Goyeneche
- 3 metals Rayuela. Photo by Alfonso Herranz + Alicia
- Double Game Exhibition. Photo by Gonzalo Muñoz
- 3 metals Rayuela stool combination. Photo by ACdO
- 3 metals Rayuela stool combination. Photo by ACdO
At the very beginning of the project, playing with geometry was fundamental in order to find the appropriate shape. Then, we started to experiment and apply geometry to different materials and finishes which would slightly alter the product. Consequently, the project turned into research of materials and the different manufacturing processes associated with them.
It was not only pure geometry, but a deep study about different materials and those subtle modifications which determined a production process or another.
