Uprooted: Jorge Penadés crafts furniture from neglected olive roots
With the ‘Uprooted’ exhibition and collection, Spanish designer Jorge Penadés explores olive wood’s design potential, valuing deep material research over industrial standardisation.
Madrid Design Festival 2025: Six Highlights in the Spanish Capital
Madrid Design Festival 2025: furniture made from upcycled olive roots, textiles rethinking wool production and mesmerising lighting designs.
Madrid Design Festival 2023: six highlights in the Spanish capital
Wood design in a former slaughterhouse, the state of the art of 3D-printing, and Seville’s creative scene. The best of Madrid Design Festival 2023 is on Archipanic.
2019 Best Design: sinking Venetian furniture, rippling benches and tech-crafted chairs
2019 Best Design. A chair made from 100 % recycled plastic from fishing nets in the Arctic, a floor-to-ceiling luminous belt and violently psychedelic benches are among our favourite furniture designs of the year.
BD Barcelona’s PISCIS series of vases upcycles aluminium spare-parts
Jorge Penadés has converted left over extruded aluminium profiles into a colourful collection of vases called PISCIS for BD Barcelona Design.
Nomadic Chair
Young designer Jorge Penadés has designed a temporary seat for contemporary free spirits that can sit for a contemplative or resting pause before moving on.