The Material Space: Davidpompa creates a new showroom of materials in Mexico City
All photography courtesy of Davidpompa
Davidpompa has reinvented its showroom in Mexico City, featuring the local materials used in its products, such as raw brass, multicoloured copper and even chunks of volcanic rock.
Aptly named The Material Space, the studio wanted to create a series of installations to help describe the raw materials it chooses for its lighting products and designs. It also hopes to offer a closer insight into the process as well as a deeper understanding of Mexican heritage and identity.
"Materials are exposed before being transformed into contemporary objects. An experience involving shades, colours, roughness, textures, transparency, reflections, warmth, lightness, subtlety, balance and contrast," explains Davidpompa. "All attributes that create the character of our collection, all qualities that define the beginning of our creative process. A visual exploration of the aesthetics and identities of our materials."
Instead of presenting lightning in a traditional way, metal bars, rough multicoloured copper, raw brass and large rocks fill the showroom. Raw metal surfaces and stones reflect the brand's affinity for honest materials.
There's an abstract layout to the space with overlapping coloured walls and raw plates, a framework that serves as a support for Davidpompa's lamps. Surfaces also bring out the qualities of each product and create a rich tonal collage.
White and greyscale hues enfold the reception area, welcoming visitors with Barro Negro compositions – a black clay produced locally. Pendant lights complete the area and invite you into the next room.
Passing through the "portal", you'll discover an "even more theatrical experience". A big space is revealed, with several corners dedicated to different materials and finishes displaying an impressive onyx rock, a raw brass plate, a bright and festive pink composition, wood blocks exposing their texture, reflections of glasses and Talavera tiles framing lamps.
The last room in this light display is dedicated to brass and copper with disks of these materials aligned on top of one another, almost reaching the ceiling, creating a textured pattern and framing Cupallo lamps.
"This is the final stop where visitors are offered a space for thought and discussion about the collection," adds the studio. "An extraordinary view which sums up what the material space aims for: opening room for conversation about our materials and showcasing the starting point for our creative process."
