ARGENTUM COLLECTION
The future of GARRIDO is full of possibilities. As we celebrate 70 years of history, the brand continues to explore new forms of artistic expression. On this path, GARRIDO remains a beacon for the preservation of silversmithing as an artistic craft. At the same time, the brand is developing a project to strengthen its commitment to the survival of traditional artistic crafts in Spain — particularly silversmithing and goldsmithing — which have been recognized as crafts of world heritage.
To bring this remarkable project to life, we have invited some of the most renowned designers and artists in the fields of contemporary art and design to create a collection of silver objects, each to be crafted in the GARRIDO workshop. Their artistic visions will be interpreted by our master silversmiths and transformed into design objects made of sterling silver. Each piece will be developed using the traditional silversmithing techniques practiced in our workshop, following the parameters and guidance of the invited artists.
The resulting collection comprises nine silver pieces, each produced in a limited edition of eight, under the supervision and direction of the participating artists and designers: Peter Marino, Ross Lovegrove, Ghada Amer, Nacho Carbonell, and Estudio Campana. Each has created a piece that faithfully reflects their artistic language and personal style, while embracing the spirit and requirements of this unique collaboration.
GUEST COLLABORATORS
The guest artisans will play the role of designers, focusing on developing and composing concept design for the pieces. The artisans will have complete freedom of creativity in the designing processes. In turn, GARRIDO will act as a production consultant and producer, assisting the artisans in the selection of applied techniques and styles to the objects.
ESTÚDIO CAMPANA
Designers Humberto & Fernando Campana
O Estúdio Campana opened its doors in São Paulo in 1984. Co-founded by Fernando (1961-2022) and Humberto Campana (1953), the studio’s purpose was to be a laboratory for materials and experimentation through the creation and production of objects, seeking a genuine language that would showcase the best of Brazil with dignity and pride in our roots. Considered a pioneer of disruptive design, it gained international recognition for its furniture design and intriguing pieces, establishing a unique and innovative language.
In the work of Campana, freedom and materiality come together to produce the unexpected and surprising, the surreal and the irreverent. Mundane materials and ready-made objects coexist side by side with the essence of their nature, bringing out their maximum potential, a hidden quality that receives a second skin, revealing a new DNA.
The brothers’ disobedient gaze becomes inspiration for a communication in permanent movement and transformation, always rooted in the search for an authentically Brazilian language. By incorporating the idea of transformation and reinvention, their creative process elevates everyday materials to nobility.
Brazilian characteristics – such as the abundance of colors, mixtures and creative chaos – bring the triumph of simple solutions, poetically.
PETER MARINO
Architect and Interior Designer
Peter Marino, AIA, is the principal of Peter Marino Architect, a 160-person, New York–based architecture practice founded in 1978. Working globally across a broad range of project types and scales, Marino is widely credited for redefining modern luxury through equal emphasis on architecture and interior design. The practice is recognized for its award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide. Well known for integrating art within architectural designs, Peter Marino has commissioned more than 300 site-specific works of art.
PMA projects currently in design or recently completed include a new 10 story flagship for Tiffany & Co. in NYC; a new ground up building for Chanel in Los Angeles; Cheval Blanc hotel in the historic ‘La Samaritaine’ in Paris; a flagship for Dior on Avenue Montaigne in Paris; a flagship for Bulgari in Place Vendome, Paris; a new building for Chanel in Miami; a complex of buildings in Greece; a Louis Vuitton flagship in Ginza, Tokyo; an art foundation in Southampton, New York; condominiums in Miami; numerous private residences worldwide.
For furthering art and culture, Peter Marino was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012) and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017) by the French Ministry of Culture. Cultural design projects include ‘The Manufactory of Extravagance of Meissen and Chantilly at Musee Conde (2020- 2021); ‘Counterpoint: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection’ at Southampton Arts Center (2017); ‘Fire and Water’ an exhibition of his sculptural bronze boxes at Gagosian Gallery in London (2017); ‘Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection’ in Tokyo and Kyoto (2017); ‘One Way: Peter Marino’ at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2014-2015); ’Beauty & Power’ an exhibition of his Renaissance and Baroque bronze collection at the Wallace Collection in London. Peter Marino purchased and restored the former Rogers Memorial Library at 11 Jobs Lane in Southampton, New York, and opened Peter Marino Art Foundation in the summer of 2021.
Peter Marino’s distinguished honors include 22 citations from the AIA for architectural design excellence. He is Chairman of Venetian Heritage Foundation and on the board of directors for International Committee of L’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs. He holds an architecture degree from Cornell University and began his career at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, George Nelson and I.M. Pei/Cossutta & Ponte.hitectural design excellence.
GHADA AMER
Artist
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1963. In 1974, her parents relocated to France where she began her artistic training ten years later at Villa Arson, Nice, France. She currently lives and works between New York and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Whitney Biennale, and the Brooklyn Museum. Ghada Amer is an internationally recognized artist with a vast range of works that include paintings and bronze sculptures, clay ceramics, prints, installations, videos, and outdoor gardens. Major galleries in New York, London, Korea, and South Africa represent her. Her works are sought after by private collectors and are permanent parts of key museum collections around the world (including, for example, the Centre Georges Pompidou,The Art Institute of Chicago, the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of, the Guggenheim Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Arab Museum of Modern Art and the FondNational d’art contemporain).
“I believe that all women should like their bodies and use them as tools of seduction,” Amer stated; and in her well-known erotic embroideries, she at once rejects oppressive laws set in place to govern women’s attitudes toward their bodies and repudiates first-wave feminist theory that the body must be denied to prevent victimization. By depicting explicit sexual acts with the delicacy of needle and thread, their significance assumes a tenderness that simple objectification ignores.
Ghada Amer continuously allows herself to explore the dichotomies of an uneasy world and confronts the language of hostility and finality with unsettled narratives of longing and love.
Ghada Amer’s work addresses first and foremost the ambiguous, transitory nature of the paradox that arises when searching for concrete definitions of east and west, feminine and masculine, art and craft. Through her paintings, sculptures and public garden projects, Amer takes traditional notions of cultural identity, abstraction, and religious fundamentalism and turns them on their heads.
ROSS LOVEGROVE
Industrial designer & experimental thinker
Born 1958, Ross Lovegrove graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with 1st Class BA Hons Industrial design in 1980 and took a Master of Design at the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. In the early 80’s worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on tech projects for companies like Sony and Apple; he later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International, for which he created the highly successful Alessandri Office System.
Invited to join the Atelier de Nimes in 1984, alongside with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, he consulted amongst others: Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont. Returning to London in 1986 he has since worked on projects for Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Apple, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Motorola, Biomega, LVMH, Narciso Rodriguez, Yamagiwa, Tag Heuer, Swarovski, Herman Miller, Artemide, Renault, Japan Airlines, Toyo Ito Architects, Kenzo, Valextra, GH Mumm, LG, F1, Samsung and KEF.
Winner of numerous international awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent Design collection. His work is held in permanent collections of various design museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), the Design Museum in London, the Vitra Design Museum, in Basel, the Die Neue Sammlung, in Munich and the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.
NACHO CARBONELL
Artist and designer
Born in Spain in 1980, Nacho Carbonell graduated in 2003 from Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. University in Spain before going on to study at Design Academy Eindhoven. After graduating, Carbonell immediately began to make a name for himself in the design world, with his 2009 Evolution collection earning him a nomination for the Beazley Design of the Year from the Design Museum in London. In 2010, a year after being named as a Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel, he presented this Identity, which redefined his style of organic forms and rough and colourful textures.
Carbonell is known for his tactile approach to sculpture, playing with texture, experimental techniques, and natural materials. His approach is unique, seeing objects as ‘living organisms’ that come alive and surprise you with their behaviour. For Carbonell forming a relationship with his work is integral – he creates objects with his hands in order to impart something of his personality to them. He describes his pieces as “communicative objects that arouse one’s feelings and imagination... that allows you to escape everyday life.”
Carbonell’s designs are made using locally sourced materials he finds near his studio in Eindhoven.
For his sculptural Cocoon lamps, the artist creates tree-like sculptures held together by steel branches and adorned with mesh-like cocoons. The cocoons are made using a steel mesh covered with a plaster of Carbonell’s own creation, a mix of sand and textile hardener. The sculptures seem otherworldly in their composition, and are reminiscent of magic realism, seeming to both imitate and transcend the natural world.
Carbonell’s lamps were among those exhibited at the opening of Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s San Francisco location. Their tree-like forms filled the upper aisles of the renovated St Joseph’s Church, adding a surrealist ethereality to the space.
His pieces are shown in museums around the world such as the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands, the 2121 Museum in Japan, Fnac-Fonds national d’art contemporai in France, in the MoMA San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Mint Museum in the United States. His pieces are also found in several private collections.
PRESENTATION AT DESIGN MIAMI 2025
Our exhibition at Design Miami 2025 is a retrospective of the transformation of silversmithing, from reflecting the past to envisioning the future, ensuring its relevance for future generations.
For this reason, the first collection by Damian Garrido and some of his most representative works are showcased. There are also works by Juan and Paloma Garrido, including some of their most important pieces (as examples of how one can evolve toward a more sculptural concept without losing functionality). The exhibition concludes with the presentation of Argentum, featuring works by Nacho Carbonell, Ross Lovegrove, Ghada Amer, Campana Estudio, and Peter Marino.