Dispatches From Spain: Kike Keller
Thursday, 3 May 2012
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Contributor postal service yesteryear Serena Olivieri
Hi 1 time to a greater extent than from Madrid. This time, I wanted to demo you lot an amazing showroom/gallery/bar I discovered a few weeks dorsum - Kike Keller.
Kike Keller together with Celia Montoya, are the designers (and builders) for this studio together with fine art space. Keller worked equally prop human being inwards the movies manufacture where he learned how to practise together with construct things, including piece working for the famous Almodovar himself! Montoya was a flying attendant together with met him several years agone piece traveling or together with therefore the world. Each fourth dimension they traveled, they took something habitation to piece of employment on or hold upwards inspired by.
They started amongst a modest showroom, primarily producing together with selling candle sculptures. Over the years though, their infinite grew inwards both size, materials together with pieces, together with artistic content. First, they began yesteryear adding slice of furniture to their collections. From there, they moved on to other materials together with are at nowadays working amongst virtually everything possible, including metal, drinking glass together with resin.
Upon entering their space, I was forthwith amazed yesteryear the spectacular matrimony of industrial blueprint together with vintage objects. Spread or together with therefore the studio, you lot could easily discovery a metallic tabular array unopen to a wooden slice from an one-time carousel. Every object displayed has a storey together with was restored or perchance fifty-fifty transformed into something else. Some plant are the effect of collaborations; others were exclusively created yesteryear them - together with withal others were position inwards a context that was completely unlike from the master pieces.
One go of the showroom houses a bar that is filled amongst their creations together with findings. Here you lot tin plough over the axe acquire familiar amongst the furniture, acquit upon it, sit down on it, or purchase it piece drinking ruby-red wine.
I was warmly received yesteryear Celia, one-half of the Kike Keller duo. She is an amazingly creative adult woman who doesn’t halt thinking, creating, producing together with beingness surprised yesteryear her inspiration. Celia explained to me her honey for the difficult work, the “upcycling” together with the careful selection of pieces.
If you lot acquire the chance, come upwards yesteryear together with halt together with induce got a sip -- induce got a await around, together with gustation this overwhelming source of inspiration.
Hi 1 time to a greater extent than from Madrid. This time, I wanted to demo you lot an amazing showroom/gallery/bar I discovered a few weeks dorsum - Kike Keller.
Kike Keller together with Celia Montoya, are the designers (and builders) for this studio together with fine art space. Keller worked equally prop human being inwards the movies manufacture where he learned how to practise together with construct things, including piece working for the famous Almodovar himself! Montoya was a flying attendant together with met him several years agone piece traveling or together with therefore the world. Each fourth dimension they traveled, they took something habitation to piece of employment on or hold upwards inspired by.
They started amongst a modest showroom, primarily producing together with selling candle sculptures. Over the years though, their infinite grew inwards both size, materials together with pieces, together with artistic content. First, they began yesteryear adding slice of furniture to their collections. From there, they moved on to other materials together with are at nowadays working amongst virtually everything possible, including metal, drinking glass together with resin.
Upon entering their space, I was forthwith amazed yesteryear the spectacular matrimony of industrial blueprint together with vintage objects. Spread or together with therefore the studio, you lot could easily discovery a metallic tabular array unopen to a wooden slice from an one-time carousel. Every object displayed has a storey together with was restored or perchance fifty-fifty transformed into something else. Some plant are the effect of collaborations; others were exclusively created yesteryear them - together with withal others were position inwards a context that was completely unlike from the master pieces.
One go of the showroom houses a bar that is filled amongst their creations together with findings. Here you lot tin plough over the axe acquire familiar amongst the furniture, acquit upon it, sit down on it, or purchase it piece drinking ruby-red wine.
I was warmly received yesteryear Celia, one-half of the Kike Keller duo. She is an amazingly creative adult woman who doesn’t halt thinking, creating, producing together with beingness surprised yesteryear her inspiration. Celia explained to me her honey for the difficult work, the “upcycling” together with the careful selection of pieces.
If you lot acquire the chance, come upwards yesteryear together with halt together with induce got a sip -- induce got a await around, together with gustation this overwhelming source of inspiration.
Kike Keller
Corredera Baja de San Pablo 17
Madrid, Spain
T. +34 915228767
kikekeller@kikekeller.com
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