Ali at Alejandra Alonso Rojas Fashion Show
One Studio
What happens when the living craft traditions of Mexico enter genuine dialogue with contemporary design?
We are a New York-based design studio built on collaboration.
We travel, we find, we work alongside master artisans whose craft is remarkable but whose designs have remained unchanged for decades — not from lack of vision, but from lack of access. Access to new ideas, new audiences, new conversations. We try to be that opening.
There are artisans across the country doing work of extraordinary precision and beauty, whose designs have stayed largely the same for decades and whose audience rarely extends beyond those who come to find them. We wanted to change that.
The studio grows by finding more makers,
more forms of knowledge,
more things the world hasn't seen yet.
The result is objects that carry the weight of tradition and the clarity of new vision in equal measure — functional, yes, but closer to art. For our first two collections, we collaborated with ceramicist Pedro Hernández and his family in San José de Gracia, Michoacán. The second collection is in production now.
Ali at Alejandra Alonso Rojas Fashion Show
We are only beginning.