Photographs: Mayte Piera.
Product Design.
The collaboration with Bang & Olufsen stems from a place very close to my understanding of design, where the boundary between emotion and technology blurs to give way to something deeper. It is not just a matter of intervening in an object and making it more beautiful, but of giving it its own identity, a narrative that makes it alive, with a soul. In this project, the Atelier line was born as an exploration of personalisation, but not as a simple aesthetic change, rather as a contemporary form of expression that allowed me to dialogue with the very essence of the object. Technology becomes a canvas, and design a gesture that speaks without words.
Each piece in this special edition is, for me, an artistic act, almost a small sculpture with its own voice. The geometry, the colour, the texture… I reinvented all these elements in search of something that went far beyond appearance. I didn’t want to decorate, but to tell stories. Stories that emerge from the silence of a speaker, from the vibration of the sound that is transmitted and that now, in addition, can be contemplated, touched, felt. Here, every line, every volume, is transformed into a visual language that accompanies the sound experience, creating an emotional bond with the owner.
The colour palette I chose responds to a clear intention: to find a balance between serenity and boldness, between the earthly and the poetic. Warm tones, deep pigments and mineral nuances that refer to natural landscapes, the strength of the soil, the texture of stones and colours that the body recognises effortlessly. There is something very intuitive about this choice, because I wanted the object to activate the senses beyond hearing, to invite a complete sensory reading. Texture, in that sense, is a fundamental element: it is touch and sight, an experience that occurs right at the boundary where the tangible and the visual meet. Thus, technology ceases to be cold or distant and becomes close, forming part of the space in an organic way.
What interests me about the Atelier line is not that everything fits together or is uniform, but just the opposite: that each piece speaks with its own voice, that each object has a unique character. It is this uniqueness that makes it special, an extension of the person who uses it, a kind of intimate reflection. I believe that design has that power: to take something everyday and give it new meaning, to make it transcend. To elevate it from its most minimal essence so that it becomes something that transforms the environment and also our perception of everyday life.
This proposal, beyond the formal, led me to reflect on the relationship we establish with the objects that surround us. Today, it is no longer enough simply to own, to have beautiful things; it is necessary to coexist, to create lasting emotional bonds that enrich our daily lives. That is why, in this collaboration, aesthetics becomes a tool to bring design closer to our sensitivity, to awaken emotions, to invite pause and reflection. A loudspeaker, then, can cease to be a mere technical device and become a piece that embraces the space, that invites touch, that suggests a memory or a feeling.
From this perspective, working with Bang & Olufsen allowed me to highlight that hidden poetry which a technological object can contain. I wanted to show that behind technical precision there can be an artistic vision, a brushstroke that makes it more than just functional. It is a small yet significant gesture that adds value and speaks of the power design has to transform our everyday experience. Because a loudspeaker does not only transmit sound, it can also hold and reveal all the beauty of a work of art, all the emotion that hides within its surface.
For me, this project is an invitation to pause for a moment and rethink how we inhabit the space around us. To understand that each object can be a sensory refuge, a meeting point with our emotions and memories. Technology, in this way, is not an end in itself, but a tool to create new ways of inhabiting the present, to enrich moments of silence and connection. It is in that interplay between the technical and the poetic, between the visible and the invisible, that I find the true meaning of design.
Looking at a loudspeaker in this way allowed me to relearn how to listen—not just to the sound, but also to the language of design hidden in every detail. The choice of colour, texture, shape… all of this becomes a choreography that accompanies the user in their experience, creating an environment, an atmosphere, an intimate refuge where technology ceases to be a mere instrument and transforms into a silent companion, a sensitive witness of our daily lives.
In short, this collaboration is a manifesto of how design can open up new possibilities, creating objects that move us and accompany us. Where technology not only works, but also touches, speaks, embraces. Thus, each loudspeaker in the Atelier line is more than a product: it is a story, a visual and sonic poem that invites us to pause, to listen, and to feel. Because in the end, for me, design is always this: emotion given form, technology turned into experience, and above all, an invitation to inhabit the world with greater meaning.
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