Celebrate Mexican Design At This Manhattan Showroom

Mexican design is on every in-the-know New Yorker’s radar (just this month, in fact, Héctor Esrawe was inducted into our Hall of Fame). But until now, there was no showroom in the city dedicated to our southern neighbors. This new Meatpacking district hotspot called K’ab Juun (its name Mayan for hand and unique) remedies the matter. The brainchild of Goldberg Interiores founder Ilana Goldberg and operations guru Dafna Puszkar, the space offers furniture, lighting, and home accessories from the country’s contemporary makers as well as reissued modernist archival pieces from Clásicos Mexicanos. 

Siembra 03, Oaxaca-based photographer and artist Javier Reyes’s rust-red rug, is a K’ab Juun exclusive, made from wool by Zapotec artisans. Egio and Kakaw resin vessels from Barón y Vicario push the medium to its artistic limits, often varying the opacity level within a single piece. Bandido Studio’s lighting includes clay-and-glass Humo pendant fixtures and the mottled glazed-steel Aura lamp. Raúl de la Cerda and Ónice’s Materia stools and table are crafted of solid local stone. Peca Estudio’s ingenious Refugio in rosa morada hardwood is a sofa on one side, a desk on the reverse—ideal for hotel guest rooms, perhaps? Peca’s director, Caterina Moretti, is also behind Aurum: plinthlike cabinets of sandblasted wood, partially swathed in mystical-looking gold leaf that transmits the delicate whorls of the grain beneath.