THE COLLECTIONS COME FROM NORTH AFRICAN ARCHITECT/DESIGNER ZAKARIA BOUCETTA. ATELIER BOPA NOW FOCUSES ON BRINGING A COHESION IN DESIGN LANGUAGE BETWEEN THE STUDIO AND ATELIER.
INSPIRED BY THE LANDSCAPES OF THEIR SURROUNDINGS, THE SONORAN DESERT, ITS LIGHTS/VALLEYS/FLORA/TONES - ALL TO WHICH BROUGHT FORMAL GESTURE EACH MOVE OF EACH SERIES. BRINGING PRECENDENT TO MOROCCAN PROPORTIONS AND ITS SIMILARITIES TO THE TONES FOUND IN THE SONORAN LANDSCAPE - ATELIER BOPA LOOKS TO SEE THE OVERLAP BETWEEN BOTH.
A CHAIR - A STOOL. WITH ADDITIONAL TYPOLGIES ADDED IN EACH SERIES. HAND BUILT BY ZAKARIA BOUCETTA. HAND STAINED AND ITERATED IN OUR WORKSHOP IN TUCSON AZ.
THESE PIECES REPRESENT A LIMITED SERIES, WHICH EACH ONE GOING FORWARD WILL BE EVOLVED FROM.
NO MORE THAN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF REPLICAS PER ITERATION - ALL HAVING THEIR OWN UNIQUE VARIATION IN TONE AND WOOD IMPERFECTIONS. EXPRESSING THE ROUGHNESS OF EACH PIECE.