Eli Gutierrez
Valencia
Eli Gutierrez is a cosmopolitan designer born in Valencia (Spain). After completing her studies in her home city, she moved to London to study for a Master's in Product Design at the Royal College of Art. This next step will help her shape a clear and elegant vision of her language, honing her keen sense for materials, colours and textures. After this experience, she lived in Milan and Paris, where she collaborated with Patricia Urquiola, Philippe Starck and India Mahdavi.
In 2016 she founded her own multidisciplinary design studio between Paris and Valencia. Her cosmopolitan and cross-cultural approach can be defined as a « World Citizen», an explorer attentive to detail, a traveller with a contemporary and incisive look remodelling the traditional codes of our environment, featuring unique embedded stories, often expressed with an eloquent and fresh elegance.
"experiences helped me to shape the way in which I create—there are bits of Spanish, Italian, English, and French in my work. What’s more, the boldness and gestures found in Mediterranean culture, along with the light in the city of Valencia, adds to my design language."
"In my work, the use of colour and pattern is unconventional—I use it to provoke sensations."