MONTREAL / @CLARAJORISCH
Clara Jorisch
On her website, Clara Jorisch describes herself as a “self-taught designer and crafts(wo)man from Montreal” whose work “streams from useless ideas and integrates deliberate imperfections.” Though her background is in graphic design, Jorisch formed her final project at the University of Quebec in Montreal around a catalog for what became her debut furniture collection. It included a limited series of hand-cut mirrors with “broken lines” designed to play with visual perception. Recent work has been similarly quirky: The Pouf collection includes soft tuffets of upholstered foam wrapped in rope so that they bulge in various places. Her Melting Glass tables have a similarly contorted profile, with ovoid tops supported by slumping glass legs that look like vases that are wilting. For Jorisch, who says her work is open to interpretation, that’s the point: “My work often comes from a very simple and spontaneous place.” —Sarah Buder
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO / @OHLASTUDIO
Ohla Studio
Ohla Studio crafts objects and spaces holistically. Projects like its Alcocer collection of furnishings draw inspiration from the architecture of Sin Nombre, a minimalist house that the practice designed and turned into a private home, gallery, hotel, and artist residency in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The collection includes chairs, tables, sconces, and more, which have simple but bold details that reference ancient forms. With both endeavors coming to fruition simultaneously, Ohla’s vision comes full circle—but it’s not complete.
Cofounders Mat Trumbull and Giulia Zink want other designers to bring their work to Sin Nombre to complement their own. The duo are taking this collaborative approach with various real estate and retail staging projects and plan to initiate similar interior and product design projects, starting with a second venture in Mérida, Mexico. —Adrian Madlener
STOCKHOLM AND MILAN / @STUDIO_NAVET
NAVET
Like most great ideas, NAVET’s first product was birthed at a fabulous party, where scattered platters for snacks and beverages were the centerpiece. That display evolved into the studio’s powder-coated metal clamp tray, which can be fastened to shelves or tables to add a second surface. NAVET stands for New And Very Exciting Things, which is exactly what friend group Lina Huring, Maria Johansson, Helena Svensson, and Cecilia Wahlberg came together to create when they were on the interior design team of a retail company and wanted a creative challenge of their own. “We always had a 360 approach. The clamp tray was a product, but it was made in the context of an event,” says Huring. Now the group, based in Stockholm and Milan, is also interested in creative direction and interior design projects—and good parties, of course. —Julia Stevens
MADRID, SPAIN / @ALLCARUGS
Allca Rugs
Looking at an Allca rug is like viewing a Matisse print after taking an easygoing hallucinogen—the graphic shapes softening around the edges. “I’m sorry. It’s difficult to say,” says Haizea Nájera, the designer behind the Madrid brand, when asked why her rugs are a
