Kauani is a project by Inés Quezada, a Mexican textile designer, and Inés Llasera, a product designer from Madrid, in which they merge their disciplines to create textile objects.
Kauani means “flowering” in Nahuatl, and focuses its practice on knitted luminaires inspired by plant elements, in the observation of their shapes, colours, patterns, textures, origins and contexts. Kauani makes spatial installations with large-format handmade pieces, and distributes its collection of domestic lamps.

In 2021 they presented their first prototypes at the Madrid Design Festival, and in recent years they have exhibited at the Maison & Objet fair in Paris, CCCC Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània in Valencia, at the Moneo Brock gallery in Madrid and at La Fundación Casa de México in Spain where they had the exhibition Kauani: Al sol de los frutos.

Inés Quezada is a Mexican textile designer, specialising in knitwear. Her practice explores the versatility of textiles as a material and applies it to garments, objects, lighting, art and architecture. She focuses her interest on the relationship between traditional textiles and contemporary design in conjunction with new technologies, with projects on different scales ranging from the manufacture of one-off pieces, which she weaves by hand, to collections destined for industrial development. Her work emphasises the transition between the initial source, often found in nature, and the final clarity of form. She is co-founder of Kauani, a textile lamp project inspired by native Mexican flora, and is a lecturer and technician at IE University for the Fashion Degree.

Inés Llasera is a product designer based in Madrid. She co-founded the design office ‘Tornasol Studio’ in 2017, since then she has been creating furniture, lighting, window displays and spatial installations. His methodology focuses on material exploration, the search for identity and artisanal experimentation.
He currently works as a window dresser for Hermès and is Program Leader of the Master in Product Design at the IED European Institute of Design in Madrid.