Fernando Laposse
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BIOGRAPHY
Fernando Laposse has exhibited in international group shows such as Make Good at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2022); Waste Age at The Design Museum, London (2021); Future Heritage, London (2019); Broken Nature at the Triennale di Milano (2019); Nature at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian, New York (2019); Food, Bigger than the plate, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2019); Victor Papenek, The Politics of Design, Vitra Design Museum (2018); and Design after Darwin, Venice Design Biennale (2017). In 2018, he was a Hublot Design Prize finalist and was part of the Beazley Designs of the Year at the Design Museum, London.Fernando Laposse considers important environmental concerns through extensive research into the location of materials and their historical and cultural connotations. This has fuelled his passionate interest in sustainability, reversing the loss of biodiversity and community disenfranchisement. His sisal bench presents the material in its raw state to demonstrate the simplicity of process from plant to final product. Fernando harvests and crushes the fibres, combs and knots it by hand to make his hairy furniture pieces.
Fernando's hairy furniture pieces, a central feature of our award-winning Design Miami: Material Shores booth in 2022, are made with Mexican sisal, the raw fibres from the leaves of the agave plant, which are typically used to make ropes, carpets and fishing nets. Once a large industry in the country, the production of sisal came to a halt after the invention of plastics. Fernando works with rural communities to harvest and process sisal and other indigenous crops, such as corn. His aim is to establish new and long-term industries in the country’s agricultural sector through the development of contemporary design materials.
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WORKS
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Installation Shots
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STORIES
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Fernando Laposse wins Bentley Lighthouse Award 2024
November 26, 2024Mexican designer Fernando Laposse has been named the winner of the distinguished Bentley Lighthouse Award at this evening's Dezeen Awards 2024 ceremony. In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen in... -
Fernando Laposse
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CROP
Gallery Exhibition 8 November 2019 - 31 January 2020Sarah Myerscough Gallery embraces the contemporary zeitgeist for new and alternative craft and design practices which express current socio-political and philosophical discourses, in particular those connected with environmental debates. As... -
Design Miami/ 2022 concludes successful 18th edition under the theme "The Golden Age: Looking to the Future"
This year’s Best Gallery award was tied between Sarah Myerscough Gallery (London) and Magen H Gallery (New York). Sarah Myerscough Gallery represents highly-skilled international artist-designer-makers, whose practices are grounded in... -
The 5 Best Booths at SF's FOG Art Fair
January 20, 2023San Francisco’s FOG Art Fair opened with a gala on Wednesday night, with top collectors from around the globe gathering to both add to their collections as well as purchase... -
A preview of a selection of this year’s exhibitors reveals some cutting edge contemporary works
November 21, 2022London’s Sarah Myerscough gallery is back too with a curation titled ‘Material Shores’, a collection of boundary-pushing work crafted from sisal, rice straw, willow, grasses and wood that captures the...
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