Architecture

Architecture

1 February 2023

From Lace to Design: UMT Chair

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, an architect, curator, and scholar based in Madrid and New York, investigates traditional craft techniques and involvement of women, queer individuals and other long-neglected minorities in design and architecture. Together with his mother, María Luisa Blanco, they created a chair using bobbin lace made of high-strength fiber Dynemaa®, a material commonly used for military purposes. The ...More about