Pirwi Pirwi is a Mexico-based home furniture brand committed to high quality, green manufacturing and good design. The company was founded by two industrial designers, Emiliano Godoy and Alejandro Castro, and launched its first line in March 2007 in Mexico City. Today, the collection includes over 70 objects by 12 designers and features cutting-edge pieces as well as award-winning designs now considered classics of contemporary Mexican design. Pirwi was conceived as an environmentally conscious manufacturing platform that could reduce impacts on in-house processes as well as materials sourcing and disposal. Furthermore, several design and manufacturing strategies have been implemented in order to better control the environmental impact of our products throughout their lifecycles. We like to collaborate on all levels: with designers, suppliers and clients that share our concern for the preservation of our planet. Both our company and its product line address the needs of our social and cultural surroundings. Our design and manufacturing processes are in constant dialogue with both their social context and the environment in which they are developed. However, this dialogue is not constrained to the immediate users or to today’s reality. At Pirwi, our paramount concern is with manufacturing products that work both today and in the future. And here lays our interest in working with designers. In addition to its ability to create beautiful and functional objects, our fascination with design comes from its capacity to visualize, and predetermine, the future. In this sense, design is understood primarily as a tool for change. We consider our products as nodes in an interwoven network that extends endlessly in time and space, and for whose development we are commonly responsible as designers, producers and consumers. If we assume this responsibility, then the existing manufacturing paradigm shifts considerably, as we are bound to consider the immediate and remote impacts of our activity. Interestingly, this responsibility generates a large area of opportunity: the paths derived from a new context, limited by unique temporary and physical constraints, are necessarily new, and as such original. In other words, our products are innovative because they are created within a novel
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:14:46 +0000
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