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CREATIVE TRANSITIONS

PERLA VALTIERRA

CREATIVE TRANSITIONS

PERLA VALTIERRA

CREATIVE TRANSITIONS

Pure form and bold geometrics, living in Casa Möbius is an exercise in structure and movement for designer Perla Valtierra.

TEXT | ROSANNA ROBERTSON

PHOTO | LUIS GARVAN

Like Gómez Gallardo, Valtierra combines the personal and the professional in the house, a retreat for a restless and creative mind, a place of calm focus. But changing tastes and needs means she is also breathing life into his visionary design and plans to open up the middle floor, creating fewer but more generous rooms to reveal uninterrupted swathes of the defining feature of the house, the concrete ceiling composed of tessellating triangles.
Working with what is already there, Perla Valtierra’s wish after four years in residence, is to strip back and to simplify, to embrace the raw honesty of Casa Möbius and to remove all that is not necessary: which are, in essence, all very brutalist concerns.

Based on the loops and twists of the Möbius strip, an icon of mid-century Mexican design has become an integral part of the creative process for its custodian, designer and ceramicist Perla Valtierra. Casa Möbius was designed by Ernesto Gómez Gallardo in 1978 and was until recently inhabited by the architect. In 2019, Valtierra took ownership of the brutalist-style house where raw concrete stairs and mezzanines blur notions of up and down. “The Möbius is like a figure eight,” notes Valtierra, “and so when I’m moving around the house I often feel like I’m following this shape.”

For Ark Kollekt #07 Perla Valtierra presents a collection of six exceptionally crafted glass objects that combines a brutalist typology with the fragility of glass by using an ancient sand casting technique.

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Based on the loops and twists of the Möbius strip, an icon of mid-century Mexican design has become an integral part of the creative process for its custodian, designer and ceramicist Perla Valtierra. Casa Möbius was designed by Ernesto Gómez Gallardo in 1978 and was until recently inhabited by the architect. In 2019, Valtierra took ownership of the brutalist-style house where raw concrete stairs and mezzanines blur notions of up and down. “The Möbius is like a figure eight,” notes Valtierra, “and so when I’m moving around the house I often feel like I’m following this shape.”

Like Gómez Gallardo, Valtierra combines the personal and the professional in the house, a retreat for a restless and creative mind, a place of calm focus. But changing tastes and needs means she is also breathing life into his visionary design and plans to open up the middle floor, creating fewer but more generous rooms to reveal uninterrupted swathes of the defining feature of the house, the concrete ceiling composed of tessellating triangles.
Working with what is already there, Perla Valtierra’s wish after four years in residence, is to strip back and to simplify, to embrace the raw honesty of Casa Möbius and to remove all that is not necessary: which are, in essence, all very brutalist concerns.

For Ark Kollekt #07 Perla Valtierra presents a collection of six exceptionally crafted glass objects that combines a brutalist typology with the fragility of glass by using an ancient sand casting technique.

SHOP THE COLLECTION

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