These Earthenware Vessels by Omar Sosa Invite Improvisation and Play
The Apartamento co-founder makes his first foray into industrial design with a line of nesting vases, carafes, and bowls for the Danish brand Raawii.
By Mara Fisher
March 22, 2022
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Tactility has been central to Omar Sosa’s creative practice for years. He developed a fondness for making books while working as a graphic designer and art director in his native Barcelona. In 2008, while in his mid-20s, Sosa co-founded the award-winning interiors magazine Apartamento, which has developed a cult following for its content—candid conversations with creative people from a variety of fields paired with refreshingly informal photographs of their homes—as well as its design, which he says has always been rooted in a consideration for the weight, texture, and volume of the final physical product.
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