Designed by Mexican multidisciplinary artist

Héctor Esrawe, the Gear Collection is a limited edition series of sculptural lights and tables hand-crafted by Esrawe’s team of art founders outside of Mexico City. Each collection piece exemplifies Mexico's ongoing metalsmithing and craftsmanship traditions.

The design concept behind these functional bronze sculptures draws inspiration from the geometry and repeating sequences of utilitarian cardboard’s honeycomb cells. Creating his own pattern and interpretation, the artist renders a fragmented and rearranged sequence that is hand-formed and then cast in bronze or aluminum. Esrawe gives a whimsical nod to the sculptural nature of the accessible material inspiration by emphasizing the textures on the edges of the aleatory vertical pattern, making an elegant metal sculptural interpretation of the common and rudimentary material.

Esrawe’s body of work shows the artist’s consistent interest in combining innovative and time-honored techniques, and bridging his modern design approach and vocabulary to the depth and breadth of the Mexican cultural heritage. The artist imbues common forms and materials with recontextualized purposes and revisited artisanal techniques, giving them a new light through his personal, contemporary interpretations.

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Gear Table III

Gear Table I

Gear Table II

Gear Table IV

Accent Tables

Based in Mexico City, multidisciplinary artist Héctor Esrawe has built a comprehensive body of work spanning architecture and product design. Each of his pieces embodies Esrawe’s unwavering commitment to the significant craftsmanship and cultural heritage of his native country. Naturally drawn to sculptural and/or conceptual design, the artist’s signature editions is rooted in his appreciation for materials and artisanal processes and a particular interest in Mexico’s ancestral metalsmithing techniques.

Esrawe’s work is a contemporary tribute to the depth and breadth of his country’s cultural legacy, combining innovative and time-honored techniques, he reinterprets and imbues common forms with revisited purposes, artisanal processes, and recontextualized materials, shedding his personal light and perspective onto them.

Héctor Esrawe graduated from the Industrial Design department of the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he then taught as a professor. In 2003, he established his multidisciplinary studio in Mexico City, where he and his team of architects and designers continue to practice today. Additionally, Esrawe co-founded an open edition design studio named EWE Studio, MASA — a design gallery whose curatorial program focuses on fostering Mexico's local design and artistic creativity, and Mexico's glassmaking collective VISSIO. His work has been widely exhibited, including at Objective Gallery in China and New York, Collectional Gallery in the United Arab Emirates, and MASA Galería in Mexico. Today, the artist’s work belongs to significant collections around the world, both private and institutional, including the permanent collection of the High Museum of Atlanta.