Barayazarra + Casteres: the architecture and design studio specializing in creating spaces and objects intricately linked to people is celebrating 30 years of history
Barayazarra + Casteres: the architecture and design studio specializing in creating spaces and objects intricately linked to people is celebrating 30 years of history
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Barayazarra + Casteres, an architecture and design studio headquartered in San Sebastián that specializes in creating spaces and objects closely linked to people. To celebrate, the firm’s founders –Ignacio Barayazarra and Charo Casteres, architects with degrees from the San Sebastián Higher Technical School of Architecture– have summarized their journey in a publication, doing so with the participation of clients and suppliers who have accompanied them throughout the numerous projects they have undertaken over these three decades. Architectural work, interior design work, public works, design of spaces, objects, and jewelry… the jobs they have done are numerous and are located both throughout the Basque Country and also in other autonomous communities. The pair have always approached their craft aiming to provide order and balance from the greater structural part right down to the smallest detail, all the while listening to the people who are to use their creations. Beauty (understood as integration of form and function to the maximum extent possible), wellbeing, respect for the client, and intimacy (their creations are very personal and closely linked to their clients) have always been –and continue to be– the four pillars on which their professional practice is based. They design from a concept and story that they mold by hand, inspired by stimuli capable of transmitting emotion and the beautiful forms of architecture, nature, art.
Convinced that the cycles of life help them to grow and reinvent themselves, the publication of their book coincides with a new dynamic that they are going to implement in their creative proposals – something which has to do with the scale of the projects they are currently tackling: they want to focus increasingly more on the creation of sculpture jewelry. These are pieces conceived from an architectural perspective that become jewels when worn on the human body and become sculptures when perched atop a custom-made base for their display. In addition to their studio/gallery in the San Martín neighborhood, these sculpture jewels are available at the Sorgin Gallery of San Sebastián, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum of Madrid. It’s a new way of conceiving jewelry, elevating it to the category of art.
Barayazarra + Casteres
Calle San Martín 54, San Sebastián.
Tel.: +34 629 061 585
