Jorge Diego Etienne presented a 250 kilo alabaster chair manually sculpted from a single stone at Zona Maco Diseño 2023.

This monumental piece pushes the limits of artisanal Alabaster production in Galeana, Nuevo León taking months of careful work to define its smooth curves and surfaces. The new lounge chair is the result of 3 years of close collaboration with the master craftsman Francisco Charles in the creation of these pieces, who for at least

What began as a design and crafts exercise quickly became a research and creation project, triggering a traveling exhibition examining the social, economic and cultural factors that have influenced the current context of Galeana and the lack of artisans, workshops and initiatives around alabaster work.

The Galeana chair builds a bridge between the artisanal process of carving this stone and a contemporary proposal of useful, timeless and transcendent design.