Twenty One Tonnes was invited by ALRATITOstudio to create an installation for Casa del Atrio, an iconic Mexico City modernist house designed by architect Antonio Attolini Lack, as part of Design Week Mexico's Tours de Diseño.

The installation, five floating, layered grid panels echoing Attolini's repeating square motifs, was woven by master weaver Susana Vicente Galan of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, on a treadle loom, using maguey fiber from FIBRA, a project that promotes sustainable maguey harvest. The panels' ochre color came from black sapote (Diospyros nigra), a native Mexican persimmon whose dye is only viable during the rainy season.

Read the full story of our installation for Design Week Mexico on the Twenty One Tonnes Journal.