Goula/Figuera Studio is a partnership between Spanish designers Pablo Figuera, from Madrid, and Álvaro Goula, from Barcelona. Both are design graduates from Elisava in Barcelona. After working for a number of design studios, they established their own practice in 2012.
The studio’s work strikes a balance between conceptual and commercial design, where industry values and creativity converge and feedback with one another. Pablo and Álvaro’s design process is guided by the following principles: “obsessive care about the object’s shape, which expresses aesthetic values through its material, the respect for the fabrication process and, of course, utility. ” Their works are elegant, easy to understand, and devoid of superficial decoration.
Their work has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Design Plus Award (2012), the Lexus Design Award (2013), the 1st Critics’ Award Red Spanish Design Brands Association (2013), and the Injuve Award (2012).
Recently, the duo established Home Adventures — a new brand that “arises from the need we had to make certain somewhat fanciful ideas tangible. Ideas that you would never think would interest companies, ” they explain. “Understandably, when we work for others our creativity is always conditioned by market and production needs. Therefore Home Adventures is the luxury we allow ourselves when we feel the need to create openly and unconditionally. “
Pablo and Álvaro attracted significant attention for their Lines and Dots series, created under the Home Adventures brand. The series is composed of bold, geometric pendant lamps that are guaranteed to make a statement in any interior. Each lamp is totally unique, inspired by a series of hundreds of ink drawings which were then refined and turned into metal lamps, each of which is hand crafted by a local Barcelona Metalworks.