Vidivixi turns “messy artist’s studio” into Mexico Metropolis furnishings showroom

Design studio Vidivixi has teamed its furnishings assortment with works by US artists and designers to create a sequence of moody units in its Mexico Metropolis showroom.

Vidivixi, which is led by British designer Adam Caplowe and American designer Mark Grattan, reworked a “messy artist’s studio” within the Colonia San Rafael neighbourhood to create its first showroom.

Grattan acted as a “matchmaker” to search out appropriate designs that may complement the studio’s furnishings assortment, which it describes as a “reflection on heat voluminous types and daring graphic contours”.

Furnishings from the 2020 assortment is used to kind completely different home-like setups throughout the showroom with complementary designs and artworks.

For instance, an summary portray by Atlanta artist Kristen Giorgi picks up the shapes and hues of Vidivixi’s pale leather-based, tubular Membership Chair positioned in entrance.

Two variations of the couch are organized across the Cafe Con Leche, a desk with an American walnut base and a mirrored high that displays Giorgi’s art work.

Tatami mats with thick black strains choose up on the black leather-based piping that wraps one of many sofas and the dyed-black oak trim on the Change sideboard.

The credenza has an undyed leather-based physique and is topped with desk lamp by New York furnishings and lighting designer Adam Otlewski.

Japanese furnishings and saddle baggage affect Vidivixi’s furnishings assortment

Partitions are painted a darkish hue whereas pure mild filters in by means of a sequence of sheer curtains, a reference to conventional Japanese material dividers often called Noren, that dangle from bronze rails in entrance of gridded black home windows.

In one other area is the Docked en Rio mattress, which has a inexperienced and black velvet that wraps the bedframe, paired with the black Determine of eight Aspect Desk, named after its interlocking base.

The desk, which has a glass high, is complemented by an S-shaped mild by Brooklyn designer Farrah Sit.

Vidivixi additionally collaborated with Brooklyn design apply Bower Studios to create two mirrors that take cues from Mexico Metropolis’s Luis Barragán. Formed like giant fork ends, every is topped with three prongs which are detailed to provide the phantasm of depth – a recurring function of Bower Studios’ work.

The mirrors adorn a wall in an area devoted to the dyed oak eating desk referred to as Vivien’s.

As a part of the mission, Vidivixi labored with each Sit and Bower Studios to provide their items in Mexico Metropolis.

“Via its showroom collaboration, Vidivixi is organically manoeuvring itself in methods we had not predicted; we now assist designers from the states transfer their manufacturing to Mexico Metropolis, permitting for studying and growth on each side,” mentioned the studio.

Vidivixi is called after the Latin phrase vidi vixi that interprets as “I noticed, I’ve lived”.

Co-founders Caplowe and Grattan, who have been each beforehand primarily based in New York, moved to Mexico Metropolis in 2016 to provide work free from monetary stresses.

Earlier collections embrace designs influenced by Japanese furnishings and saddlebags.

Pictures is by Pia Riverola.