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ounded in 2010 by Nicoletta Mantoan and Alejandro Dumon, 2 Monos is a “slow-design” practice based in Mallorca, with a multidisciplinary approach across furniture, lighting, architecture and art. The duo merge two different backgrounds: architecture and interiors - Nicoletta - with metal-working and sculpture - Alejandro - resulting in a practice that covers all of the aspects of making a product, from concept through production. By combining different sensibilities that involve scale, materiality, finish and manufacturing, 2 Monos creates objects that somehow make the space: from seatings to lighting and artworks, every product speaks about hand-made details, elegant proportions, seamlessly integrating in the context where they live. Their clients range from architects to restaurant owners to artists and designers and every client goes to their workshop and is part of the process.
They say “we think with our hands!”, while explaining about their process: a radical approach in experimenting with the real material and the brief, away from nowadays de-humanised industrial production processes. For 2 Monos, slow design is defined by these words: stop/think/explore/enjoy, where slow is not referring to time, but to the quality of a product by taking care of each step of the process, therefore self-producing.
