ARTISANS CONNECTION

Danneels + Zafiro

quema collection

After exploring the world of interior architecture and design, Hugo Danneels and Julie Figueroa Zafiro founded their craft workshop and creative studio in 2021, specializing in furniture-making and turnery.

The meeting of wood and fire is their first artisan thrill—scales, cracks, charcoal, deep black—the extreme transformation of the material by fire and the desire to freeze this metamorphosis is a constant playground of wonder and fascination.

Always guided by the search for a sensitivity unique to each material, they continue their exploration by combining contemporary mechanical techniques with traditional gestures, such as wood carving with a gouge.
With the 2025 collection, their work enters a new phase: the encounter with leather, enriching the sensory approach and deepening the dialogue between material and body.

Their constantly evolving craft brought the talented duo to exhibit their work internationally. When asking where their inspiration comes from, the duo will answer without hesitation “from the material’s imperfections”. Salvaging the wood destined to be discarded and chipped, Julie and Hugo use the material’s inner life by enhancing its defects.

What is next you ask ? After their beautiful tableware collection and inspiring lighting collection, the pair is working on a furniture collection just as breathtaking.