EWE STUDIO
EWE is a design studio based in Mexico City, devoted to the preservation and advancement of Mexico’s rich artisan heritage, while embracing new mediums and languages for the execution of limited-edition sculptural and functional objects.
With a desire to reflect tradition as part of the natural flow of design, EWE praises diverse techniques, blends primitive roughness with pristine surfaces, and uses natural empathic materials that appeal to the senses. Mexican history is EWE’s inspiration for forging new ideas that have substance and meaning.
EWE Studio was founded in 2017 by Manuel Bañó, Age Salajõe and Héctor Esrawe. Since then the studio has exhibited at Zona Maco Art Fair, Abierto Mexicano de Diseño with their solo exhibition ´Masa Crítica’, and at MASA Galeria in Mexico City, at Design Miami, Basel, Switzerland, at Objective Gallery in Shanghai, China, and at The Future Perfect and Galerie Half, in the US in New York and LA.

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The EWE Studio Copal side tables are composed by four identical pieces linked together with hidden locks, making the observer feel like three out of the four parts of the table are just touching and hovering in the air. Our stonemason and wood carvers used obsidiana, Tikal green marble, volcanic stone and wood, while creating the pieces. The artisans understand the nature of the materials, working to bring out their unique characteristics and particular properties.

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EWE Studio in collaboration with Nouvel Limited produced a special golden edition of Magma lighting fixtures for Design. The process began with creating molds varying in size and scale, hand carved in volcanic stone by local stonemasons. The volcanic stone was chosen for the molds as it is not affected by the heat of the blown glass, due to its origin. Being an artisanal process, the shape, thickness and tonality differs, as a result giving unique characteristics to each one of the Magma ‘bubbles’. The ethereal golden light is generated through acid finish that was applied on the amber glass surface, together with the hand hammered brass surface contained within the bubbles. Amber blown glass with acid finish, steel, hammered brass, LED lights

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EWE Studio stools are made of oak wood, Jalapa travertine and Monterrey marble. The stool form becomes an expression of the hand-carved techniques and its materials. It combines a circular pristine base with inner surface being rough and a wide curved tribal top. The works are carved out from one single piece of either wood or stone, leaving no joints.

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For the creation of Sincretismo’s Partera chair, EWE Studio looked deep into the past and found its inspiration from the shape of a birthing chair commonly used in Mexico, while making their own abstraction. The chair sits low with integrity on top of its two base legs, the dramatic character and expression is the result of a radical volume that holds a wide horizontal extended seat intersected by a long perpendicular backrest.

Ewe Studio
EWE Studio collaborated with Nouvel Studio to produce the Magma light series. The process began with designing molds varying in size and scale, hand-carved in volcanic stone by local stonemasons. The volcanic stone was chosen for the molds as it is not affected by the heat of the blown glass, due to its origin. Being an artisanal process, the shape, thickness and totality differs, as a result giving unique characteristics to each one of the Magma ‘bubbles’.

Ewe Studio
EWE Studio in collaboration with Nouvel Limited produced a special golden edition of Magma lighting fixtures for Design. The process began with creating molds varying in size and scale, hand carved in volcanic stone by local stonemasons. The volcanic stone was chosen for the molds as it is not affected by the heat of the blown glass, due to its origin. Being an artisanal process, the shape, thickness and tonality differs, as a result giving unique characteristics to each one of the Magma ‘bubbles’. The ethereal golden light is generated through acid finish that was applied on the amber glass surface, together with the hand hammered brass surface contained within the bubbles.

Ewe Studio
The EWE Studio Copal side tables are composed by four identical pieces linked together with hidden locks, making the observer feel like three out of the four parts of the table are just touching and hovering in the air. Our stonemason and wood carvers used obsidiana, Tikal green marble, volcanic stone and wood, while creating the pieces. The artisans understand the nature of the materials, working to bring out their unique characteristics and particular properties.

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The coffee table of EWE Studio is made out six half spheres, three smaller half and three large half spheres, that are assembled together. The table is carved out of Tikal green marble by our stonemasons. The technical complexity of the work is related to its stability, as the upper big spheres are seemingly hovering in the air, resulting in a magnificent visual tension that defies gravity on its cantilever.