Eli Urp\u00ed (El Papiolet, 1985) and Nacho Umpi\u00e9rrez (Colonia del Sacramento, 1983) began over a decade ago, crafting silk headpieces. By chance\u2014or perhaps by fate\u2014the old hat blocks of the Galician milliner Mar\u00eda Maz\u00e1s fell into their hands. From that moment, they began to reinterpret classical millinery through a lens that was both contemporary and deeply personal. Their work, exquisite and experimental, found its way into stores like Browns (London) and Harrods, yet it was also presented behind closed doors in their G\u00f2tic Quarter showroom in Barcelona. There, to this day, they continue to welcome visitors in what feel more like intimate encounters than appointments.<\/p>\n
Yet their creative restlessness soon led them to blur the boundaries between fashion, art, and design. \u201cWe wanted the hat to stop being a functional object and become a sculpture,\u201d<\/i> says Urp\u00ed. \u201cOur greatest influence in textile art has been Aur\u00e8lia Mu\u00f1oz,\u201d<\/i> she explains. This urge for evolution first took shape in hybrid pieces\u2014hand-painted wide-brimmed hats, abstract canvases deconstructing the hat\u2019s form. Then came furniture\u2014stools, tables, lighting\u2014and more recently, textile sculpture. Each step, though organic, has also been a clear stance: no gallery, no calendar, no concessions.<\/p>\n
In just a few years, their work has travelled from Seoul (Cheongju Craft Biennale) to Madrid (Art U Ready), Milan (Palazzo Litta and the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci), Miami (Design Miami), and Barcelona (Escat and Il\u00b7lacions). In 2025, their creations will appear alongside Balenciaga hats in the Matter Matters<\/i>exhibition at the Disseny Hub Barcelona, and they have been awarded the Saco de Artesan\u00eda Contempor\u00e1nea<\/i> prize at Madrid Craft Week, earning them growing international attention.<\/p>\n
Today, without a permanent gallery or external impositions, Eliurpi flows. And as in their work, in their journey too, the essence of order is change. A change that does not stray from their artisanal roots, but transforms them into something else: a way of thinking\u2014material, silent, and profoundly sensitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32587,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categorias-profesionales":[1324],"class_list":["post-32929","profesionales","type-profesionales","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorias-profesionales-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/32929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profesionales"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/32929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorias-profesionales","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-profesionales?post=32929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}