+ than 25 years. A journey of discovery, of professional and personal transformation and of discovering new processes, leading to a new approach: customised jewellery design.
My path undoubtedly stems from my prior architectural experience and perspective which have enabled me to understand each project in itself; to analyse and sketch and to give each movement and shape a why, what for and for whom.
Along the way I have always drawn on other viewpoints and other ways of thinking and doing which have taught me the importance of the smallest details, of the strength and presence of a small object in an immense space, of craftsmanship, of shapes, of the senses...
From beauty to the finished piece, with meaning.
This experience and knowledge have brought me to where I am today and shaped who I am, what I do and how I do it, helping me to truly Believe, from the highest heights down to the smallest details.
Beauty
Understood as the utmost integration of form and function. Design that provides order, balance and makes you feel good. A design that makes people’s everyday life beautiful, combining inspiration with functionality. Rather than seeing the space or the content, we make people see the concept in it... Internalising it, understanding it.
Well-being
To offer people tranquillity and the chance to enjoy the work because, in reality, it is a unique moment in their life. This is the aim of our work: to enjoy and make people enjoy, because the best success is when people tell us how happy they are.
Respect
— For the customer: keeping our word regarding deadlines, prices... Listening to what they need and working with discipline and responsibility. — For our profession: evolving, always looking ahead and opening ourselves up to new worlds to nourish ourselves and absorb knowledge outside our comfort zone. — For sustainability: optimising spaces and resources, achieving quality and long-lasting results.
Intimacy
From the structural to the smallest detail. What we do is intimately linked to the people we do it for. It is for them and is not transferable to anyone else nor anywhere else. Works and materials that in an empty state are in balance… and our deepest intervention completes it.
MY EXPERIENCE
“I want to touch people’s hearts and for my work to mean something for and inside of them”
- 1968 Born in San Sebastián.
- 1995 Architect certified by the ETSASS (Higher Technical School of Architecture of San Sebastián).
- 1995 Finalist at the national architecture competition FINAL YEAR PROJECTS by the AGUIRRE & NEWMAN foundation.
- 1995-1996 Collaborates with Architecture Sans Frontières carrying out a project to build a school in Guatemala.
- 1995-2000 During her first years she develops her professional career collaborating with several architecture firms (OLASO, GARMENDIA, AURTENECHEA & PEREZ – IRIONDO).
- 2001 Completes a PhD course at the Sapienza University of Rome.
- 2000 Collaboration in the project and project management for the Hotel Sheraton Bilbao, with the Aurtenechea & Pérez-Iriondo studio and Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.
- 2004 Founds her own studio in Bilbao with IGNACIO BARAYAZARRA BARRUTIA – architect – developing several new construction and refurbishment projects in the Basque Country.
- 2004-2006 Volunteering at Cáritas for the programme to accompany seniors.
- 2009-2019 Independent beauty consultant and Sales Manager at Mary Kay Inc. Spain, advising and leading a team of more than 200 consultants, reaching position number 10 in Spain in 2015.
- 2016 Advice on Window Dressing along with the Department of Development in San Sebastián.
- 2016 Collaboration with the Department of Development in San Sebastián for the retail promotion plan.
- 2017-2020 Studies Artistic Jewellery at the Easo Polytechnic in San Sebastián.
- 2018 Selected with various items for the SA’D jeweller"s in Bilbao.
- 2018 Selected for an itinerant exhibition to different jewellery-making schools in Spain, with the item “Perfumero”.
- 2019 Creation of "Espacio B + C", our studio in San Sebastián, in the centric San Martín neighborhood and at street level. The space where we create and show our architecture and design work, incorporating a new line of design linked to "artistic jewelry".
MY STUDIO
Beauty, Wellbeing, Respect and Intimacy
A place for creation based on solid, inherent, fundamental and natural values that will mature and evolve over time and yet govern our way of being and doing.