Gabriela Sagarminaga

In 2017, I, Gabriela de Sagarminaga, set up Sagarminaga Atelier, an art and craft studio born from an illusion: to collect an ancestral tradition, that of the artisan work of vegetable fibers, to design and produce exclusive and timeless pieces, and to create spaces with great expressive value.

I aim to create objects that have something behind them, a story of their own.

There is a reason to explain the purpose of existence of our crafts which explain the beginning of their storytelling.

Since I tasted the heartwarming activity of handcrafting with vegetable fibers, I've been fascinated by their qualities and contrasts, their lightness and their intensity and its ductility. I am seduced by their meanings and their ability to convey sensations, to talk about culture and traditions, and to create links between past and present, between people and their environments.

As such I believe and seek to create timeless pieces and in lived spaces that are entangled and involved with the languages ​​and emotions of each of the people who participate in them.

I like balance and volume, gaps, quality and rhythm, raw and aesthetic. Geometry, Tilt, and Overlap are engraved signs of identity. An exciting adventure.

I studied Fashion Styling and Coordination at the IED, Fashion Design Styling at Central Saint Martins in London and a Master in Marketing Management at ESIC.

During and after my studying years, I worked for a year with Custo Barcelona and three other years with Flaqué Internacional before moving to South America to initiate my own project "Da un giro”, which means to change something of yourself. During six months, I visited 6 different countries to interview people, communities and companies who were working for the common good.

When I finished my trip, I was hired as a researcher to devise a Living Lab model at Inspiralab, in the Innovation, Science and Technology district of Medellín, where I learned a lot about processes of creation and social transformation.