Jessie Young & Emiliana Gonzalez
Uruguayan
Bio/studio Bio
Jessie Young and Emiliana Gonzalez, both from Montevideo, Uruguay, moved to Los Angeles in 2013. They teamed up in LA for interior design projects, bringing together their unique backgrounds: Jessie in journalism & art and Emiliana in industrial design. Eventually, this led them to design their own products in which they fell completely in love with. Two years into doing interiors, they decided to fully focus their partnership on furniture design.
In 2014, Estudio Persona was born. With a deeply collaborative process, their unconventional designs are inspired by natural forms and follow sculptural lines. A distinctly neutral and minimal monochromatic aesthetic feeds their designs.
Based on their studio and showroom in Los Angeles, Estudio Persona works with natural and contrasting materials in a unique way.
Connection Collection
This collection started with the investigation of volumes and the potential interconnection between them. Carl Andre’s structural building principles, in which elements are stacked and interlocked-- in particular his Belgicube-- was a huge inspiration for the collection. The idea behind the collection is to present standard volumes like spheres, cylinders and rectangular prisms in a new and different way, which allows for a new perspective.
For this new collection we departed from our monochromatic roots into an investigation of color, inspired by artist David Batchelor’s book Chromophobia.
The arrow table is made up of two cylinders that appear to come from different directions and connect in the middle, completely changing the cylinder form into an Arrow shape. For the H chair, we played with the repetition and subtraction of the same shape, when interlocked and placed in different angles creates a new volume. The block chair seen from above is an uppercase “I” volume, when viewed at eye level, one sees it is a chair. The Bow floor lamp is an intentional contrasting element in this collection. The lamp was inspired by Austrian artist Florian Pumhösl and his study on Georgian letters. The cylinder and the sphere are connected by a line, making a graphic impact in a space, which balances with the bulky structural pieces of the rest of the collection.
Jessie Young and Emiliana Gonzalez, both from Montevideo, Uruguay, moved to Los Angeles in 2013. They teamed up in LA for interior design projects, bringing together their unique backgrounds: Jessie in journalism & art and Emiliana in industrial design. Eventually, this led them to design their own products in which they fell completely in love with. Two years into doing interiors, they decided to fully focus their partnership on furniture design.
In 2014, Estudio Persona was born. With a deeply collaborative process, their unconventional designs are inspired by natural forms and follow sculptural lines. A distinctly neutral and minimal monochromatic aesthetic feeds their designs.
Based on their studio and showroom in Los Angeles, Estudio Persona works with natural and contrasting materials in a unique way.
Connection Collection
This collection started with the investigation of volumes and the potential interconnection between them. Carl Andre’s structural building principles, in which elements are stacked and interlocked-- in particular his Belgicube-- was a huge inspiration for the collection. The idea behind the collection is to present standard volumes like spheres, cylinders and rectangular prisms in a new and different way, which allows for a new perspective.
For this new collection we departed from our monochromatic roots into an investigation of color, inspired by artist David Batchelor’s book Chromophobia.
The arrow table is made up of two cylinders that appear to come from different directions and connect in the middle, completely changing the cylinder form into an Arrow shape. For the H chair, we played with the repetition and subtraction of the same shape, when interlocked and placed in different angles creates a new volume. The block chair seen from above is an uppercase “I” volume, when viewed at eye level, one sees it is a chair. The Bow floor lamp is an intentional contrasting element in this collection. The lamp was inspired by Austrian artist Florian Pumhösl and his study on Georgian letters. The cylinder and the sphere are connected by a line, making a graphic impact in a space, which balances with the bulky structural pieces of the rest of the collection.
