Gallery artist Gala Fernandez gets ELLE DECORATION SPAIN 2020 award
Every year The EDIDA awards celebrate creativity and design and honour the best designers worldwide in various categories
Gala with her marble ‘Miracle Framers’ at our gallery exhibition ‘Delicacy Revisited’, held in London 2015, in the Brompton Design District, during the London Design Festival.
Photo ©Laura Huhta.
We are pleased to announce and congratulate
Gala Fernández RECEIVING the 2020 award in the category ‘designer of the year’ for Spain, in a ceremony held in Madrid in February, just before the lockdown.
Since its launch in 2003, the ELLE DECORATION INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS or EDIDA celebrate the best in design and can be compared to the Oscars given in the film industry.
25 chief editors from Elle Decoration’s worldwide country editions, select their winners in 14 categories. Later the main global winners will be selected and celebrated in a huge event during Milan’s Salone each year.
A recent highlight project by Gala was the collaboration with Moroso for an Africa inspired furniture collection and illustrations. The collection was presented last year at the SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019, under the title ‘M’ AFRIQUE’.
Chairs and illustrations for Moroso, Italy, presented 2019, Collection M’AFRIQUE
Illustrations by Gala Fernández for Moroso, 2019
The glass vessels and vases featured below are available via MARION FRIEDMANN gallery. They are from the project ‘OUT OF THE CAGE’, realised with the skilled glass-blowers of acclaimed glass manufacturer NOUVEL Studio in México City. The liquid glass is blown into various shaped and sized birdcages (or other everyday objects from the markets and streets of the city), serving as ‘natural’ molds for this process. Once the housings for colourful birds, the cages have transcended into objects, containers, vases or vessels, new life has literally been blown into them. The objects are a result of the interaction of the hot fluid glass with the moulds. The colour and crystal quality of the glass by Nouvel studio is remarkable and highly rated, as are the skills of its glass-blowers. The project questions the status of confinement versus refuge. A cage can be conceived as imprisonment or a cosy shelter for comfort. The glass works subtly capture this essence of limitation, protection and custody in an imaginative fashion.
ANOTHER PROJECT FEATURED BY THE GALLERY is CARO ETTORE, a sculpture set in hommage to Ettore Sottsass, who had his 100th birth and 10th death anniversary in 2017. the pieces are crafted in Puebla Mexico, famous for its variety of stones and quarries and the highly skilled artisans who work in a wide range of stone carving techniques.
MATERIAL: Mexican black and white Marble & Onyx, direct carving // marmol negra y blanco, onyx, taller directa
SIZE: H approx. 15 to 30 cm x W/D: approx 10 cm // approx. H 5.9 to 11.8 x W/D 3.93 in
Made by artisan: Miguel Angel Loéza, from Tecali de Herrera, Puebla, México, 2014
Edition of 20
Gala in Milan at Moroso, 2019