Omayra Maymó is a Spanish architect and designer occupied in the creation of furniture, lighting and objects, through which she explores the narrative and emotional potential of our material world. After spending a long period of time living and working in Copenhagen, where she founded her design studio in 2016, she is currently based in her hometown, Madrid, from where she collaborates with different companies on an international level.
Her work is centred in creating timeless, honest, meaningful and beautifully simple objects that aim to evoke emotional bonds with their owner, and therefore last a lifetime beside them, appealing to the most sentimental aspects of sustainability. She sees herself as a storyteller and conceives the object as a form of expression, as the language of an intention or a meaning that wants to be transmitted beyond the object's functionality and aesthetics, in order to move people.
In addition to her work with industrial products grounded in a large-scale production context, her more speculative projects, which often result in unique, experimental pieces, make up an important part of her work and approach. Her projects often search for ways to merge these two seemingly opposite frameworks into one, seemingly opposite f exploring the natural potential of materials and their limits and reconsidering how they are processed, with the aim to bring new perspectives into the design industry and approach more meaningful and human ways of manufacturing.
Her work has been recognized with several awards and honours and has been exhibited in New York, Milan, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Brussels. She has been a guest lecturer and jury member at numerous institutions and universities across Spain and internationally. Presently, she teaches regularly at the Product Design programme at IED Madrid and at the Industrial Design Engineering programme at Universidad Nebrija.
