Our stories and developments in design & living.

Write a short brief in the style of Blade Runner for a steel Tucurinca chair made in a dystopic future where there is no hand labour and everything is crafted by machines Product Brief: Tucurinca Steel Chair – Forged in the Dystopian Future Introduction In the sprawling metropolis of a dystopian future, where human touch […]

We had been thinking of making a domino set for a while. Although it’s not a child’s game, it brings back a lot of memories from that time. My grandfather used to gather with a group on weekends, sometimes at his estate, Bellavista. We went along almost instinctively because the event would turn into a […]

While I naturally draw inspiration from what’s happening in the world, there’s always a pressing need to remain authentic to our history: the Caribbean, its people, and our everyday life. This is why it took some time to shape this inspiration in a way that felt right for Tucurinca. IGNEO, in the first instance, is […]

Unconventional processes. I’m not sure if they are or not, but that’s how our design processes are—far from the ideal of cardboard prototypes and the dream of coldly calculated measurements. Here, we design through observation, trial, and intuition. We make plans, but without measurements, non-technical drawings of the look with a slightly tilted perspective and […]

Magdalenas for Magdalena. A new chair. The key is in the back leg. An arch that’s actually two legs but visually feels like one. Ergonomics and styles inspired by the Maye II chair but something new. We made a prototype, then two prototypes, and the fourth one turned out well. The first one looked good […]

The pleasure of each shot. The game changes when you have to choose between four liters of water or a four-kilogram camera. With only ten shots per roll, each image is an act of meditative contemplation; each photo advances the countdown. Either too present to fail in the future or too far in the future […]

Months and then years passed, and the success of Tucurinca significantly contributed to the proliferation of plastic-woven chairs that now saturate local markets. From Mercadolibre to the corners of our own neighborhood. Some are better than others, and it’s not wrong to say that most of them want to be like ours. Almost all of […]

Then the lady came to request a chair I had never made before. At this time, I’m very reluctant; it seems like I don’t want to do anything. Not everything. Only standard products because I’m tired of cluttering myself with projects I don’t finish and chairs that never see the light of day. Then I […]

Between the fried fish and the yam, there’s a distance that only matches in the East. The sweet potato tamed the saltiness, and darkness served as a guide; breakfast eggs with a side of cheesy arepas framed the day. Crying over the hearth is part of the struggle; it’s food with emotion, with intent. The […]

Visiting Pedro Mendoza and not being transported to childhood is a challenge, the entrance to Ciénaga, the acacia trees along the roadside that adorn the entrance to the neighborhood of the Smurfs, as they called it because the houses were small. Any resemblance to Macondo is purely coincidental. In a small house with a calabash […]

My name is Roberto Antonio Mengual Cabeza. I am the youngest of 6 siblings. My father had four wives. My father, Jose Domingo Mengual, and my mother, Maria Magdalena Cabeza. My father painted advertising signs. He worked at Vallas Colombianas. Later in Santa Marta, he started his own business near the Santa Marta Theater. He […]

Mother, there’s only one, that’s what this is about. I wanted a chair for breastfeeding, a chair for the mother. The grandmother’s chair made in Tucurinca. We prototyped it eagerly but slowly, in short and intense bursts. In the end, the MADRRE didn’t turn out to be a rocking chair, but it is indeed a […]