Categoría: Craftsmen

Elena Goded Rambaud trained as a biologist, holds a doctorate in Philosophy and Educational Sciences, spent decades as a university professor, and arrived — perhaps as the most natural consequence of all that came before — at founding one of the most singular and celebrated textile craft projects in Spain. Elena Goded graduated in Biological Sciences at a time when scientific and artistic ways of seeing were still considered separate territories. Her life’s work brought them together. For more than twenty years she was a tenured professor at UNED, Spain’s national distance-learning university, where she directed the Textile Craftsmanship course

In Lisbon, in a small shared workshop, a lawyer and a designer discovered they had more in common than either would have anticipated: the same urgency to work with their hands, the same attentiveness to materials, the same instinct before wood. Zé Maria and Bernardo spent a year finding a name for what already existed. They called it Junto, because that was what it was about: building something together. Today the studio brings together a team of six who work with solid oak, walnut, kambala and chestnut — certified, and selected for its behaviour, visual presence and durability. Each piece

Her ceramics do not seek the spectacular gesture or immediate affirmation. Each piece is made one by one, where the action upon the material is, above all, an act of listening. “When I begin to touch the clay, a dialogue is created between the material and myself. That is when forms appear organically,” she explains. The work of Cris Gago as a ceramicist—artistic name of Cristina Garrón Gómez—does not arise from strategy or calculated pursuit, but from an interruption. After more than fifteen years linked to the fashion industry as a designer, something began to fall out of alignment. It