From architecture to product design
Lisbon Design Week welcomed Ramón Esteve to Coletivo 284 for a conversation on product design, held alongside the presentation of Vondom's latest collections.
Organised by Traços Interiores and Coletivo 284, the event brought together design, dialogue and exchange around new ways of understanding contemporary outdoor living. Within this context, the Vondom Talk with Ramón Esteve offered an opportunity to explore the creative process behind the collections and to consider how product design can extend the architectural experience beyond the limits of the built space.
A continuous vision, from the city to the object
The talk explored the studio's cross-disciplinary approach to design, understood as a continuous journey across different scales: from urban planning and architecture to interiors, objects and furniture. This vision connects projects of different programmes and dimensions through a shared interest in light, materiality, geometry, comfort and atmosphere.
Ramón Esteve presented the house as one of the starting points of this design process. In residential architecture, the relationship between structure, landscape, intimacy and daily life becomes especially intense. From this context, a natural bridge emerges towards product design: pieces conceived not as isolated objects, but as elements capable of shaping spaces, organising outdoor life and creating a dialogue with the body and the landscape.
Vondom and the Mediterranean outdoor space
The collaboration between Vondom and Ramón Esteve reflects this way of understanding design as an extension of architecture. Collections such as Posidonia, Vineyard, Faz, Ulm, Quartz, Gatsby, Fusta, Gum and Mel form part of a shared language linked to the Mediterranean lifestyle and to the continuity between interior and exterior spaces.
Through material, proportion and geometry, outdoor furniture becomes a tool for creating atmosphere. Each piece contributes to defining places for gathering, resting and living outdoors, reinforcing the idea that exterior spaces can also be understood as living spaces.
