The workshop within the south of Spain, the place Guillermo Rodriguez builds his beautiful packing containers is in a small hexagonal cabin constructed by his sister and impressed by Mongolian yurts. Area is tight. “Not having a bigger workspace has influenced my concentrate on smaller items,” he says.
However he additionally admits, “Since my beginnings, I’ve had a weak spot for packing containers, and packing containers inside packing containers.” His beginnings as a boxmaker and full-time woodworker, nonetheless, return solely 4 or 5 years. Earlier than that, he spent six years dwelling in a van he had outfitted as a camper, touring across the nation pursuing the game of mountaineering. “Spain is a paradise for this,” he says.
And for some years previous to that he labored as an expert photographer. He shot stills on movie units, architectural pictures, press pictures for a newspaper, road pictures. Wooden was central to his expertise as a scholar at a Waldorf college. “Our tables, chairs, toys, and nearly all the pieces round us was manufactured from wooden. I made my first wood spoon in our woodcarving class at 11 years outdated.” And he watched and helped his father, a stone sculptor who additionally labored wooden.
His father died in an accident when Guillermo was an adolescent. “My life modified fully,” he stated. “And I didn’t hear about wooden once more till a few years later.” Throughout Covid, Rodriguez settled down after his rock-climbing “pirate days” and carved some wood spoons. “My need to make issues out of wooden reawakened,” he says.
He started watching woodworking movies, and shortly the craft grew to become what he calls “an obsession of each hour of my life.” His academics, on-line and in-person, have been Hernán Costa, Germán Peraire, Israel Martín, Sebastián Mateu, and Vasko Sotirov. “They’ve been elementary in all the pieces I’ve achieved,” he says.
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The sycamore and ebony packing containers replicate Rodriguez’s affection for Japanese design and craftsmanship.
The hinged, six-drawer field is a “humble homage” to Kenji Suda, whose work Rodriguez cites as “elementary in my seek for inspiration.”
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And the cupboard was impressed by the Bauhaus painter Josef Albers.
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