The Andes House – madeinMIMBRE®

Jose Miguel Araus, Matias Arriagada, Cristian Dominguez, Sofia Dominguez, Raul Dominguez, Arturo Errazuriz.

In 2006, madeinMIMBRE® was created, designing products that have been exhibited at the Design Biennial in Santiago, the Ibero-American Biennial in Madrid, the MALBA in Buenos Aires, the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Salone Satellite in Milan, and Llavoretes in Valencia, among others.

Created in 2011, The Andes House is a design studio that considers materials and identity to be essential elements for resolving product design commissions and architecture projects. For each undertaking, the material is the point of departure, allowing an understanding and an analysis of its potential and helping to situate and develop products in which materiality fulfills an essential, utterly idiosyncratic role.

Pro2

Nicolás Hernández.

A design studio in the Chilean market for five years, Pro2 focuses its expertise on the areas of lighting, furniture and accessories, designing and manufacturing its entire catalogue of products based on the notion of offering quality, usability and accessibility to an ever-growing audience of clients.

Bravo!

Rodrigo Bravo, Matías Bravo, Genoveva Cifuentes, Natalia Fuentes y Sandra Pope.

Bravo!, a studio focusing on the design, manufacture and sale of furniture, is comprised of a multidisciplinary work team that develops contemporary furniture with a strong emphasis on the use of the most noble local materials, particularly wood. The mission of this firm is to promote and reclaim, through its products, the traditional techniques of local carpentry, and the team achieves this through simple, innovative designs.

Juan Pablo Fuentes & Asociados

Juan Pablo Fuentes, Abel Cárcamo, Jaime Ramírez.

Juan Pablo Fuentes & Asociados is an independent firm founded in 2003. Since then the studio has developed projects for clients such as Homy, Cómodo-Tienda de Diseño, Mo, O! Diseño, Wool, Mideplan, Codelco, Cointer Chile y España. The firm is also noted for its work developing Cómodo-Tiendas de Diseño, the first retail space in Chile for independent Chilean design.

Orlando Gatica Estudio de Diseño

Orlando Gatica A. and Designers.

For over 15 years, this design studio has established a working method through which constant innovation and consistently improving design quality have led the company –which is a subsidiary of O’Diseño Factoría S.A.– to work on extremely complex, specific projects. With a client list that includes important brand names as well as private residential projects, the firm has completed over 3,000 projects to date.

For the past three years the firm has been developing, in addition to spatial projects, various product lines destined for international sale under the name brand O`, a label that is constantly updating its collections. Their propositions focus primarily on maintaining a local design identity both in terms of design as well as in the use of raw materials, in the quest for pure, elegant objects that may be recognized around the world.

ConsejoNacional dela Cultura ylas Artes

Gobierno de Chile

DIRACMinisterio de Relaciones Exteriores

Gobierno de Chile

Embajadade Chile en el Reino UnidoMinisterio de Relaciones Exteriores

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Galán coat rackpro2Measurements: Height: 171 cm. Width: 34 cm.Weight: 10 kg.Principal Materials: 20 mm LocallySourced Plywood.Manufacture / Production: Chilean.2011

wingOrlando Gatica design studioMeasurements: 600 x 240 x 40 cm.Weight: 385 kg.Principal Materials: MDF and Tineo Veneer.Manufacture / Production: O’Diseño Factoria.2011

Open table lamp | Open mini lamp pro2Measurements: 39 x 26 cm. | 28 x 19 cm.Weight: 314 gr. | 212 gr.Principal Materials: 3 mm Coigüe Plywood | 3 mm Coigüe Plywood; Versions in PVC.Manufacture / Production: Chilean.2007

disco lamppro2Measurements: 11 cm. per Disc.Weight: 14 gr. per Disc (Total Weight of 400 Discs: 5.6 kg.)Principal Materials: Litecell.Manufacture / Production: Chilean.2011

tecla tableJuan Pablo Fuentes & AsociadosMeasurements: 90 x 90 x 36 cm.Weight: Approximately 40 kg.Principal Materials: MDF, Glass, Lacquer, Wood Veneer.Manufacture / Production: Cómodo – Tienda de Diseño.2010

tronco tablebravo!Measurements: 70 x 85 x 270 cm.Weight: 80 kg.Principal Materials: Lenga Beech Wood.Manufacture / Production: 100% Handcrafted.2011

lc lampThe Andes HouseMeasurements: 33 x 33 x 38 cm.Weight: 3.7kg .Principal Materials: Wicker.Manufacture / Production: madeinMIMBRE®.2009

la80 lamp | la60 lampThe Andes HouseMeasurements: 80 x 80 x 32 cm. | 62 x 62 x 26 cm.Weight: 4.4 kg. | 3.4 kg.Principal Materials: Wicker.Manufacture / Production: madeinMIMBRE®.2009

Gero stoolbravo!Measurements: 40 x 35 x 35 cm.Weight: 2.5 kg.Principal Materials: Lenga Beech Wood.Manufacture / Production: 100% Handcrafted.2010

Domínica chairbravo!Measurements: 90 x 40 x 51 cm.Weight: 5.2 kg.Principal Materials: Lenga Beech Wood.Manufacture / Production: 100% Handcrafted.2006-2010

trape tablebravo!Measurements: 32 x 84 x 115 cm.Weight: 21.6 kg.Principal Materials: Lenga Beech Wood, Steel.Manufacture / Production: 100% Handcrafted.2010

The Andes House –

madeinMIMBRE®

República de Cuba 1718, Providencia. Santiago, Chile.Fono: 56 02 91 67 12.www.theandeshouse.comwww.madeinmimbre.comcontacto@theandeshouse.com

Bravo!

Av. Italia 975, Providencia. SantiagoFono: 56 2 7850981www.bravomuebles.cominfo@bravomuebles.com

Juan Pablo Fuentes

AV. Santa María 2780, 201Providencia – Santiago de Chile.Fono: 56 9 96407667www.juanpablofuentes.clinfo@juanpablofuentes.cl

Orlando Gatica

Cachapoal 1179, 9B - RancaguaFono: 56 2 3671111. Santiago56 72 959510. Rancaguawww.orlandogatica.comog@orlandogatica.com

Pro2

Av. Italia 1489, local 5. Providencia. Santiago.Fono: 56 2 723 04 93www.pro2.clnico@pro2.cl

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Contemporary

Design from Chile

100% Design — London 2011

Organized by the Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DIRAC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Council for Culture and the Arts, and the Government of Chile.Luz Méndez, Macarena Aguilar, Hernán Garfi as, Alejandra Amenábar, Oscar Ríos, José Luís Bayer, Osvaldo Luco.

Acknowledgments:Alfredo Moreno, Chilean Foreign Minister.Luciano Cruz-Coke, Minister and President, National Council for Culture and the Arts.Tomás Müller Sproat, Chilean Ambassador to the United Kingdom Horacio del Valle, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Félix de Vicente, ProChile.Carlos Honorato, ProChile.Constanza Güell, National Council for Culture and the Arts.Alfonso Díaz, DIRAC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Manuel Figueroa, National Council for Culture and the Arts.Cristián León, Embassy of Chile, United Kingdom.Francesca Bucci, DIRAC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Fanny González, Creative Industries, ProChile.

Design: Pozo Marcic EnsamblePhotography: Jorge BrantmayerTranslation: Kristina CorderoPrinted at: Ograma S.A.

la80 lamp | la60 lamp

Impreso en Chile / Printed in Chile

The Andes Housebravo!JUAN PABLO FUENTES & ASOCIADOSorlando gatica Estudio de diseñoPRO2

“Existing at the same time as another person or thing.”

This is what it means to be contemporary. Yet this concept, which possesses no judgment in and of itself, beyond situating people and things in a specific space in time, has a far greater meaning for Chile and its designs.

In a world where every country seeks to assume a position from its particular forms, Chilean design reveals itself from its very existence. In other words, from the affirmation of its condition, its manners, its forms, its materials, its ways of creating, and most of all from the souls of those who breathe life into its products: its designers.

Observation, coexistence with the landscape, needs, and –perhaps most importantly– dreams are what have given shape to the products presented here in all their honesty, wit and eternal quest.

The execution of these pieces entails a quest not only from the perspective of construction, craft and installation, but also as a celebration of the value most prized by their creators: work.

Through their work, Chilean designers explore the productive possibilities of their materials, with the poetic vision of immersing themselves in the realm of difficulties and transforming their materials so that they speak, shout or whisper.

Chilean design, a field that is young but nonetheless of prolific output, reflects the values of its people. Beyond constant intermediation and artifice, Chilean design is concerned about bringing us closer to those things that are not so integral to who we are as humans. They situate us in a terrain, but they also invite us to inhabit a world in which the construction of our environment begins to be inhabited by our own products.

Welcome to our understanding of what it means to be contemporary.

Welcome to Chilean Design.

Manuel Figueroa, National Council for Culture and the Arts.

la 80 lamp | la 60 lampThe Andes House

The LA60 and LA80 lamps of the madeinMIMBRE® collection are two models of suspension lighting that were designed as objects capable of containing and filtering light through the technique of the weave incorporated into the design. This light filter enhances spaces by making them warmer, blending with the ambient light.

la 60 lamp | la 80 lampThe Andes House

lc lampThe Andes House

The LC lamp, also from the madeinMIMBRE® collection, was designed as an object of direct light. The decision to direct light toward a specific point allows the lamp to accentuate or highlight a specific element within a given space.

trape tablebravo!

Trape is a low center table, built primarily with Lenga beech wood sourced in Chilean Patagonia. Its light, continuous structure defines this table as a perfect complement both for the home as well as contract projects.

gero stoolbravo!

The focal point of the Gero wooden stool is its sculptural structure and assembly. Manufactured entirely with Patagonian woods through manual processes, this stool offers a rediscovery of the kind of work found in traditional Chilean carpentry.

gero stoolbravo!

Tronco tablebravo!

Tronco, which can function as a dining room table or work table depending on the situation and need, is manufactured by hand with Lenga beech wood from Chilean Patagonia.

It is structured in such a way that tabletops of different lengths may be generated through an easy setup and assembly system.

The asymmetric top makes this piece feel both dynamic and slender.

Domínica chairbravo!

The Domínica chair is conceived on the basis of local raw materials, taking advantage of traditional Chilean carpentry techniques.

The structural solution for this piece makes it tremendously slender and visually lithe, qualities that enhance its rigorous ergonomic concept.

All the techniques involved in this manufacturing process are entirely manual, and particular care is taken with finishes and terminations.

Tecla tableJUAN PABLO FUENTES & ASOCIADOS

Tecla is a table designed and produced in Chile. Of simple design, it can hold objects or magazines within its body, since its glass top can be lifted through an orifice-handle. Manufactured in MDF, with a plywood interior and coated in paint, Tecla offers a contemporary form that is ideal for young homes with small spaces.

wingorlando gatica Estudio de diseño

Wing is a furniture unit of modular design that may be moved and assembled without the aid of an expert, thanks to its simple installation, and simulates the movement of a forest. This is a direct reference to the special kind of forest in Chile where its Tineo wood is found and acquired through the management of FSC forests.

This piece of furniture was conceived to adapt to the shape desired by its user, thanks to a repetitive module that allows the user to arrange the height and width according to the available space. This module loses its “module” through the placement of wings, which are installed at random, and it also has the option of spinning, which results in a number of different effects.

disco lampPRO2

A modular system for lighting comprised of uniform discs united through sockets and arranged randomly, generating an irregular shape that is able to contain the light source.

Open Table Lamp | Open Mini LampPRO2

Open Table Lamp: Is a table lamp with a structure comprised of three discs with ribs united through sockets and arranged in radial form around the discs to generate a support structure that may be inhabited by light.

Open Mini Lamp: This is a bedside lamp with a structure comprised of three discs with ribs united through sockets and arranged in radial form around the discs to generate a shape that illuminates through a format that is easily arranged.

Galán coat standPRO2

A stand for clothing and accessories such as umbrellas, hats and other items, Galán is comprised of four legs that come together to create an piece that is ideal for use in various places in the home or office.