MIGUEL LEIRO
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Miguel Leiro is a designer, curator, and educator based in Madrid who focuses on expanding the cultural value of design. After receiving a bachelor's in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute (New York City) he started a practice in Madrid that specializes in products, creative direction, interiors, and branding.
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Camper
David Chipperfield Architects
Panoramah!
PIN-UP Magazine
Mast Books
Font Barcelona
Marmoles Covarrubias
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Maison & Objet Rising Talent Award
Rome Prize
AD Best of Spain
El País
Wallpaper Magazine
PIN - UP
AD Spain
Neo2
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ERRATA - May 2019 - New York Design Week - Mast Books
Errata is an exhibition hosted at Mast Books, celebrating an assemblage of works that question the physical condition of both books and design objects. It will bring together new work from various Spanish designers, ranging in material and typology.
In the 1971 novel by Anthony Powell, a central character, Bagshaw, is nicknamed “Books”, a short version of his full nickname, “Books Do Furnish A Room”. Several stories circulate about how Bagshaw received this unusual nickname. In one story, he got too drunk at a cocktail party, and pulled down an entire bookcase in an attempt to stay upright. Laying in heap with books all around him, he quipped “Books do furnish a room, don’t they?” In a different version, Bagshaw is caught in bed with the wife of his boss, a London literary editor. To break the awkward silence, Bagshaw says, “Books do furnish a room, don’t they?”, and conversation shifts to literary work, allowing the trio to ignore the “elephant in the room”.
How should we understand the role of books in furnishing our day-to-day? They present an image of intelligence and knowledge, while mainly playing the role of a placeholder, accumulating dust in otherwise empty shelves. Just like the books we all say we read, a person possessing an object and using it tells us a lot about that person. On the contrary, a person having an object and not using it also tells us a lot about that person. Through the conception of specifically designed objects, Errata presents an expanded perspective, developing this dynamic between functional and perceived use. A collision of the book and design object.
CURATORS:
Miguel Leiro
Nelson Harst (Antifurniture)
VENUE:
Mast Books
INSTITUNIONAL PARTNERS:
Acción Cultural Española
Pratt Institute
ICEX
Interiors from Spain
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