Singular Surface

For the Surface&Interface event, the Valencian company Punt has participated with the designer Borja García , who has done the graphic applied to the Ernest desk using Virtual Melt technology. Since its beginning, Ernest has always been special, discreet but brimming with meaning. It is a piece of furniture with presence, with a certain ambience of hieratic sculpture and, at the same time, of human intimacy. Its utterly rational geometry makes it look like it has always been there and yet, at the same time, it exudes a timelessness that makes it forever new. How can anything be added to such a delicate balance? Borja Garcia has turned back to his roots, to its deepest and most bonded concepts, such as care, detail, the construction, the precision, its open and yet, at the same time, concrete and exact nature. A texture drawn from visual references from the world of architecture and technical arts to draw discreetly on its surface using chart paper, leaving the door open for a more personal interpretation. The universe of the workshop and creative disciplines are conjured by the designer’s cutting tables, by a tailor’s patterns, or an architect’s table. Pure black like a linear tattoo to add something to the piece’s original statement, almost a visual poem that accompanies us to absolute understanding of its meaning.The event Surface&Interface shows the results of 9 projects, a result of the joint work of nine companies with nine respective designers or design studies applying Virtual Melt digital printing technology.
About Punt:
In 1980, before it was a company, Punt was simply a means of expression for two designers who were driven to channel their creativity. It was born of and for design. Punt has collaborated with many architects in preparing their projects and providing furniture, and provides products that fully integrate into architectural works, designing and manufacturing furniture that is logical, clearcut, functional and meaningful. Punt optimizes space, developing multifaceted products of the highest quality, ideally suited to their intended use. Punt has a human resources team, backed by advanced technology, with the capacity to prepare projects, manufacture and furnish all kinds of homes and collective areas. At Punt, their design philosophy involves cutting through to the essence of things, developing an authentic culture for each project with a clear and concise approach.

Gráfica de Borja García impresa sobre chapa y macizo de roble con tecnología Virtual Melt. Escritorio Ernest de Punt.
Graphic by Borja García printed on veneer and clump oak with Virtual Melt technology. Ernest desk by Punt.
Fotografía de Cualiti Photo Studio / Photography by Cualiti Photo Studio

Omelette-ed with Iratzoki Lizaso design studio in the event Surface&Interface

The Lasso table by Omelette-ed is presented in our exhibition Surface&Interface as a novelty to the market, Iratzoki Lizaso studio is the responsible for both, product design and generation of graphics applied by Virtual Melt technology. At the present time, Omelette-ed is taking a step forward with their first foray into the world of furniture with the Lasso table, designed by Iratzoki Lizaso design studio. By means of the application of graphics using the Virtual Melt technology, Jean Louis Iratzoki y Ander Lizaso have chosen working with wooden applications of streaks oak, cherry, and beech al different scales. A very simple interplay of transparency and colours in which branching woods are juxtaposed, allowing their own tones to create colour on the veneer of the base’s worktop. Iratzoki Lizaso have worked with the concept of the visual printing as non-invasive with respect to the object that holds it, seeking to harmoniously unify graphic form and impression. This is a modification that sought to avoid laying down the strengths of the structure and Lasso table’s own attributes. The event Surface&Interface shows the results of 9 projects, a result of the joint work of nine companies with nine respective designers or design studies applying Virtual Melt digital printing technology.
About Omelette-ed:
Omelette editions is an editing company for home and contract objects that emerged from our eagerness to create objects with a value. They edit objects that will form part of your life. Objects that will get a place next to those pictures you got from your friends for your brand new home, next to the table you use to celebrate the birthday of your children year after year, or next to the armchair on which you used to have enjoyable chats with your mother. Products with soul. They edit objects with the value that gives a good design, based on the simplicity, on the honesty of the materials where each detail defines its essence. Objects that know how to get older with time, timeless objects.

Gráfica de Iratzoki Lizaso impresa sobre chapa de roble con tecnología Virtual Melt. Mesa Lasso de Omelette-ed.
Graphic by Iratzoki Lizaso printed on oak veneer with Virtual Melt technology. Lasso table by Omelette-ed.
Fotografía de Cualiti Photo Studio / Photography by Cualiti Photo Studio

Estiluz with Crous Calogero in the event Surface&Interface

The Nit lamp by Estiluz, is the synthesis between an orientable reading light spot and a shelf. It is designed to satisfy comfort especially in bedrooms; through a light of high quality light and focused to the individual use, that is to say, that satisfies the reader and is not invasive to the companion. The designers of the product, CrousCalogero, have design the graphic intervention for the Surface&Interface event. The graphic concept of Francesc Crous y Alessandro Calogero for the Nit lamp, undoubtedly, highlights the decorative needs linked to the demand for an emotional, symbolic and ritual function, through a language raised not from the logic of modern design, but from the logic of the construction, the design and the user. The integration of digital printing goes hand-in-hand with the need to incorporate and develop new expressive forms that involve an objective, logical and rational reading that come into play in the quality of the object. At the Surface & Interface event, visitors can find a unique and personalized edition of the Nit lamp. In this case, the map of Barcelona on ash wood printed with Virtual Melt technology. Implying that this is a scalable idea because wherever the product is installed, whatever the city, hotel or location, it can be accompanied by a local map that places the tourist where is located. A proposal that aims to highlight the endless possibilities of customization with Virtual Melt digital printing technology. The event Surface&Interface shows the results of 9 projects, a result of the joint work of nine companies with nine respective designers or design studies applying Virtual Melt digital printing technology.
About Estiluz:
Founded in 1969, Estiluz is a leading company in decorative lighting. They offer lamps that awaken the imagination of the best designers. Nearly fifty years full of work and effort, but above all, fifty years creating trends in the world of lighting, true to its philosophy of offering design products with one of the best finishes in the industry. That same design philosophy has allowed them to reinvent themselves, approaching the market with new materials and technologies. Innovation is the new emblem of their designs.

Graphic by CrousCalogero printed on ash veneer with Virtual Melt technology. Nit lamp by Estiluz.
Photography by Cualiti Photo Studio

DVELAS in the event Surface&Interface

The Cunningham armchair by DVELAS has been designed specifically for the exhibition Surface&Interface using Virtual Melt technology. The graphic intervention of Arraitz Koch has been applied in the side faces of the structure, reflecting on the decoration as staging of the beauty of the material on the armchair. This expressive armchair emerges as the evolution with arms of the original armchair Tack. It results that Cunningham, having been designed to explore the aesthetic possibilities offered by the expressiveness of the different forms of the armchair, Arraitz Koch expressly takes advantage of them when introducing an illustration on wood based on 1.5 mm thick lines in an aesthetic that belongs between the graphic universe of the fashion designer Paul Smith and the mimetic simulation of the singing of the plywood, looking for precisely a wink or an illusion in which it is not known that it is the illustration and that it is the material, which is manufactured and which is the emulation. The event Surface&Interface shows the results of 9 projects, a result of the joint work of nine companies with nine respective designers or design studies applying Virtual Melt digital printing technology.
About DVELAS:
DVELAS designs, manufactures and markets contemporary outdoor and indoor furniture using used and withdrawn boat sails as nautical use as its main raw material. DVELAS avoids using the material as a coating or upholstery. The goal is that the material continues in tension, working in the same way as when it was used to navigate, thus giving back the dignity even though the sail has already been exploded.

Graphic by Arraitz Koch printed on birch marine plywood with Virtual Melt technology. Cunninham armchair by DVELAS.
Photography by Cualiti Photo Studio