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03 / 02 / 2021
Design, product and furniture design, interior design and architecture. Everything is a process. This is the active method that the Mexican designer Héctor Esrawe applies to his work and to his team of about 50 professionals that includes architects, graphic and industrial designers, engineers and administrative staff. Based in Latin America, the Esrawe studio has been building its projects in different corners of the world. 
Furniture, interior design, and architecture. How is Esrawe’s identity reflected in these three areas? We are a multidisciplinary studio, through our methodology we develop projects with different scales and typologies. These projects vary from designing a glass vase to the interior design of a concert hall. We firmly believe in collaboration and multidisciplinary interaction. Thanks to this, we have generated an active process that allows us to work as a continuous learning platform open to participation, growth, dialogue and collaboration.
We build and create a unique language for each project. We don't believe in formulas and repetition, we don't believe in having a style or simply following our previous steps. We profoundly believe that our culture has an incredible heritage and we apply it with rigor and respect, while always trying to translate it into new meanings, expressions, and possibilities. We don't believe in design as being black or white, it's somewhere on that grey scale where we feel more comfortable, where we can work on different typologies of projects, with crafts or technology, luxury or social projects, because we are based on their essence. We don't forget where we come from. Our approach is shaped by the skills that have nourished us for generations. We look back to learn how things were created, but keeping an eye on evolution and transformation. We firmly believe in collaboration as a continuous learning experience. I constantly say that once you remove the ‘ego’ from the table, the only thing that can happen is that you learn something.

As an industrial designer, how did you develop your taste and work for architecture? I’ve been collaborating with architects doing interiors for many years. That allowed me to work in a horizontal way, where our mutual opinions define the expression and solutions in the project. On the other hand, a third of my team are architects, so it became a natural step in my path.
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Casa Sierra Fria. Photo: Cesar Bejar 
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Casa Sierra Fria. Photo: Cesar Bejar 
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Casa Sierra Fria. Photo: Cesar Bejar 
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Casa Sierra Fria. Photo: Cesar Bejar 
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Casa Sierra Fria. Photo: Cesar Bejar 
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Esrawe Studio. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Esrawe Studio. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Esrawe Studio. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Esrawe Studio. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Esrawe Studio. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
What do you like most to create: furniture, interiors, architecture, or a complete and integrated approach for each project? Always the process. Most of the time, we always start from scratch.

Which of your works truly represents Esrawe Studio? I don't have a favorite piece or space. Naturally, I relate more to the most recent project I have finished or the one I'm working on. I think there is a certain kind of cruelty, because once a new project begins, it grabs all my attention and interest. More than a particular piece or space the learning and knowledge of previous projects becomes the seductive element that grabs my attention and at the same time the tool that allows me to create new ones.
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Grupo Arca. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Grupo Arca. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Leaf Chair  
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Shifting Parabola. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Tori Tori. Photo: Cesar Bejar  
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Tori Tori. Photo: Cesar Bejar  
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Tori Tori. Photo: Genevieve Lutkin 
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Xinu Showcase. Photo: Alejandro Ramirez 
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Xinu Perfumes 
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Hector Esrawe. Photo: Ana Hop 
For more information, visit ESRAWE STUDIO website. 
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