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.
The Madrid Design Festival 2025 took over the Spanish capital. Check out what we liked the most: furniture made from olive roots, textiles rethinking wool production, and more.

With the ‘Uprooted’ exhibition and collection, Spanish designer Jorge Penadés explores olive wood’s design potential, valuing deep material research over industrial standardisation.

For the Oro Blanco exhibition, textile designers Inés Sistiaga and Regina Dejiménez joined forces with Wool4Life to create a capsule collection and an architectural installation crafted from wool from different species of native Spanish sheep, some of which are at risk of extinction.

Madrid Design Festival 2025: furniture made from upcycled olive roots, textiles rethinking wool production and mesmerising lighting designs.