Proyect name
Proyect timeline
Collab
Contracooltural Chair - Tenkai
Industrial design
August - December 2025
Valentina Ercolessi
Paula Cortina
GUADALUPE CASTELLÁ
Tenkai
Contemporary counterculture operates as a resistance to saturation and immediacy. Rather than seeking visibility or consumption, it creates spaces of silence and slowness within visual noise. Camouflaged in its surroundings, it requires an attentive, unhurried gaze to be discovered, escaping algorithmic logic by resisting easy display or virality. Its value lies in pause as a proposition: a small ritual that interrupts automation and invites a second look.
The chair invites reflection on what is usually taken for granted—how we sit, how we look, and how we relate to objects. Inspired by the practice of origami, its structure unfolds through intersecting triangular planes that support one another, generating shifting perspectives and questioning formal stability as the viewpoint changes. Built from folded sheet metal, its concealed joints reinforce the idea of a continuous gesture, where each connection feels inherent to a single act of folding.
Cindy Lilen
Design and sculpture
Yawaron · Lina Cameli
Jewelry and art
Essential Alquimia
Aromatic atelier
Rizoma
Candles and soaps
Anapana Handpan · Nahuel Amarú
Music
Manuel Mora
Ceramics
Fill Blue · Sofía Abt
Photography and cyanotype
Alkimia Textil Ancestral · Natalia Orozco
Sustainable fashion
Estudio Cemira · Cecilia Miranda
Textile art
Taller Entre · Candela Calcagno and Catalina Gallino
Pottery
Romina Eriksson · Valkyria Gin
Kombucha, ferments, and herbs
El Club del Vinilo
Music
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Part of the process involved defining how each component would connect—through which methods, with what level of detail, and within the material limits of the chosen fabrication technique.
/ About the proyect
GC
Based in Madrid
Finally, we had the opportunity to show it in Proa 21, a recognized museum of Buenos Aires.
GUADALUPE CASTELLÁ
Contracooltural Chair - Tenkai
Proyect name
Proyect timeline
Collab
Industrial Design
August - December 2025
Valentina Ercolessi
Paula Cortina
Tenkai
Contemporary counterculture operates as a resistance to saturation and immediacy. Rather than seeking visibility or consumption, it creates spaces of silence and slowness within visual noise. Camouflaged in its surroundings, it requires an attentive, unhurried gaze
to be discovered, escaping algorithmic logic by resisting easy display or virality. Its value lies in pause as a proposition: a small ritual that interrupts automation and invites a second look.
The chair invites reflection on what is usually taken for granted—how we sit, how we look, and how we relate to objects. Inspired by the practice of origami, its structure unfolds through intersecting triangular planes that support one another, generating shifting perspectives and questioning formal stability as the viewpoint changes. Built from folded sheet metal, its concealed joints reinforce the idea of a continuous gesture, where each connection feels inherent to a single act of folding.
Cindy Lilen
Design and sculpture
Yawaron · Lina Cameli
Jewelry and art
Essential Alquimia
Aromatic atelier
Rizoma
Candles and soaps
Anapana Handpan · Nahuel Amarú
Music
Manuel Mora
Ceramics
Fill Blue · Sofía Abt
Photography and cyanotype
Alkimia Textil Ancestral · Natalia Orozco
Sustainable fashion
Estudio Cemira · Cecilia Miranda
Textile art
Taller Entre · Candela Calcagno and Catalina Gallino
Pottery
Romina Eriksson · Valkyria Gin
Kombucha, ferments, and herbs
El Club del Vinilo
Music
1
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3
4
5
/ About the proyect
Part of the process involved defining how each component would connect—through which methods, with what level of detail, and within the material limits of the chosen fabrication technique.
Finally, we had the opportunity to show it in Proa 21, a recognized museum of Buenos Aires.
GUADALUPE CASTELLÁ
Based in Madrid
Contracooltural Chair - Tenkai
Proyect name
Proyect timeline
Collab
Industrial Design
August - December 2025
Valentina Ercolessi
Paula Cortina
GUADALUPE CASTELLÁ
Contemporary counterculture operates as a resistance to saturation and immediacy. Rather than seeking visibility or consumption, it creates spaces of silence and slowness within visual noise. Camouflaged in its surroundings, it requires an attentive, unhurried gaze to be discovered, escaping algorithmic logic by resisting easy display or virality. Its value lies in pause as a proposition: a small ritual that interrupts automation and invites a second look.
Finally, we had the opportunity to show it in Proa 21, a recognized museum of Buenos Aires.
Part of the process involved defining how each component would connect—through which methods, with what level of detail, and within the material limits of the chosen fabrication technique.
The chair invites reflection on what is usually taken for granted—how we sit, how we look, and how we relate to objects. Inspired by the practice of origami, its structure unfolds through intersecting triangular planes that support one another, generating shifting perspectives and questioning formal stability as the viewpoint changes. Built from folded sheet metal, its concealed joints reinforce the idea of a continuous gesture, where each connection feels inherent to a single act of folding.
Tenkai
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2
3
4
5
Made of folded sheet metal.
Welded by Miguel Echeverría at his workshop “Números primos”.
Finished with an oven-baked, dark gray textured paint.
/ About the proyect
GUADALUPE CASTELLÁ
Based in Madrid