Mar Gausachs

There are professional trajectories shaped by the quiet coherence of a long journey, marked by talent and a deep sense of vocation. This has been the path of Mar Gausachs. Through more than twenty years of work, she has gradually built a language of her own, one that now culminates in her new collection, Lempicka, conceived as a turning point in her career within the fields of decoration, interior design and design at large.

Trained in Visual Merchandising at the IED Istituto Europeo di Design between 2003 and 2005, and later completing a postgraduate degree in Retail Design at Elisava (2006–2008), Mar began her professional career with a precise understanding of space as a narrative medium. From the outset, her focus was never decoration understood as surface, but rather use, experience, and the relationship between object, context and person.

This perspective was consolidated through her work with companies such as E. Furest, Mandarina Duck and Textura—environments where product and storytelling coexist, and where space acts as a mediator between brand and user. For seven years, as creative director of Grupo Casa Viva, Mar developed an extensive and complex body of work. With more than twenty stores across Spain and Andorra, the brand became a testing ground where she learned to make decisions with real impact, sustained over time.

In 2018, she began her freelance practice, focusing on styling, creative direction and set design. Since then, her work has unfolded with increasing precision: editorial projects, domestic spaces, and commissions for brands and private clients seeking more than a refined image. In her practice, every choice responds to a clear intention. Aesthetic construction has been the defining thread of her work throughout this period.

At the same time, for the past two years, she has shared process and reflection with photographer María Pujol. Together they founded Kanela Estudio, a tandem in which photography and styling engage in dialogue based on mutual respect and creative independence. This partnership is not a fusion of authorship, but a conscious collaboration, where each project is approached through the convergence of perspectives.

After years working with objects designed by others, Mar takes a further step and decides to produce from the origin. To design beyond an exercise in style. Ceramics emerge here as a slow, resilient material, capable of absorbing time and returning it in the form of presence. Her Lempicka collection distils her poetic sensibility and translates it into form.

Mar Gausachs belongs to a generation that understands design as responsibility. Technical knowledge, cultivated sensitivity and an honest relationship with process define her work. In a context saturated with fast images, her practice proposes a different pace—the pace of slow time—marked by rigour and by a voice that does not need to raise itself to be heard. Mar Gausachs already occupies a privileged place within the contemporary landscape of interior design, decoration and design.

published in Exágono