/ CO-mer
/Project developed in collaboration with Criminals Kaleb Cárdenas, Lucas Margotta and Diego Gajardo/
/Final Panelist Lexus Design Award 2017/

CO-mer
is a series of containers that trace and rescue the origins of eating, sharing
and baking bread. The three pots collaborate symbiotically to accompany
the bread-making process; each one configured with a unique function and a correlating
one vis-á-vis the whole.
The biggest pot
is used to mix and knead the flower and water, while the smallest one is where
the dough reacts by leavening. Water and earth, together, invite the air to
join. Then, by integrating the middle-sized container, all three pots are
combined to form an oven, where the bread is cooked over fire. At last, the middle-sized
container is used to provide the bread.
The containers are fabricated in
clay from Pomaire, a rural town in heart of Chile’s central valley that
treasures an ancient pottery tradition. Their circular shape stems from the
material’s turning process, symbolizing an equidistance between the convened
guests, inviting them to share.
CO is the Latin prefix that refers to mutuality normally in harmony. Prefixed by CO, ‘comer’ is the Spanish for to
eat: the CO reminds us to always do it together./

/CO-mer, Santiago 2017/

/CO-mer, Santiago 2017/
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/CO-mer, Santiago 2017/
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/CO-mer, Santiago 2017/

CO-mer, Santiago 2017/

/CO-mer, Santiago 2017/
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/CO-mer performance at the Final of the Lexus Desig Award, Milan Design Week 2017/
/CO-mer. Video, 1m35s, 2017. Music Tomás Gubbins/