Après Objet is a project run by Lucía Vergara and Miquel Matas i Ferrer dedicated to the search and curation of limited edition handmade objects, focusing on culture and popular crafts.
Our interest lays in that which is sincere and humble about popular crafts. We seek for natural and simple objects that will become part of our daily lives through use. Often times the simple and ordinary is a lot more precious than the extraordinary.
Many craftmen do not consider their work special, but something that is embedded in their daily routine and part of their way of life. Our purpose with starting this project has been to share, through popular traditions, the work and the people behind those objects.
We are so used to our common objects that these no longer make us wonder, we’ve ceased to appreciate them. With Après Objet we want to make an attempt so as to point out and share their beauty. Slow down our practices in order to observe and listen in a more conscious way.
MANOLO: (Charches, Granada – 1951)
Manolo was born in Charches, Granada, moving to Murcia at the age of five.
His father, a miner, passed away at the age of 54, when he was only 12 years old. Manolo began to work to support his family. Generous and hospitable, he made a living working at restaurants for many years.
Manolo shares how his father was a great reader. Besides being a miner, he was the neighborhood’s teacher, families entrusted him their children. He remembers his father sitting in front of the house, with a jug, a book and a tobacco flask.
Manolo never had time to develop hobbies while he was working, something he is willing to make up for today. For health reasons he had to retire at a younger age, and to keep his spirits high he began to build wooden toys. He started by making collages with stamps and drawing beautiful abstract compositions on wooden boards. Now he builds mills, lighthouses, playgrounds and even bullrings under request. After so many years working in the food and service industry, it is nice to see his passion for cocktails and restaurant graphics in his paintings.
For Après Objet he has made a group of friendly horse riders who travel around the Murcian fields and wear a hat to protect themselves from the sun. Manolo loves talking, he has a brilliant and avant-garde imagery where the Sea, the West and Simultanism converge.
Given our interest in textiles and workwear, we decided to give Manolo some fabric for him to paint something inspired by his horse riders. With it, we produced the pockets for ten workwear style jackets that bring us closer to his workshop, a way to transform the original and classical object and imagine new interpretations.
CAVALL FORT:
Youth game. Two teams, from four to eight participants each. An infinite variety of names and rules exist for it. As with popular crafts, games are interpreted differently according to the culture and territory, however, the movements have stayed the same throughout time.
This is the version we used to play when we were little. The players of the team stand in a row, crouched and bending their knees just slightly. The first (referred to as the Mother) leaning back against a wall or similar, the others crouched with their heads between the legs of the next player, forming a long barrier.
The players of the opposite team jump one by one over the end of the barrier trying to get as far as possible. Once they fall, they must remain seated in that same spot. They can use their hands to push themselves. If they cannot get all the team players over the opponents barrier, they lose and its the other teams turn. Once everyone has jumped, the first one in line says :
“Churro, mediamanga, mangotero, guess what comes first!” as he chooses where to place his hand: on the other hand (churro), the wrist (manga), the elbow (mediamanga) or the shoulder (mangotero.) If the other team guesses where the hand is, the teams switch roles. Clearly, the first player in the barrier (the Mother), who sees what happens, cannot speak. If the opposite team doesn’t guess or the player’s barrier collapses prematurely, the roles of the two teams remain. And so on.
Photography playing Cavall Fort: Rafa Castells
Creative direction: Après Objet
Models: Armand Carrillo, Laura Sanpedro, Luna Paiva, Ferran Lajara, Gerrit Jan Veldman, Irina Chochriakova, Romeo Erlich, Yara Erlich y Otto Oliva.
Après Objet is a project run by Lucía Vergara and Miquel Matas i Ferrer dedicated to the search and curation of limited edition handmade objects, focusing on culture and popular crafts.
Our interest lays in that which is sincere and humble about popular crafts. We seek for natural and simple objects that will become part of our daily lives through use. Often times the simple and ordinary is a lot more precious than the extraordinary.
Many craftmen do not consider their work special, but something that is embedded in their daily routine and part of their way of life. Our purpose with starting this project has been to share, through popular traditions, the work and the people behind those objects.
We are so used to our common objects that these no longer make us wonder, we’ve ceased to appreciate them. With Après Objet we want to make an attempt so as to point out and share their beauty. Slow down our practices in order to observe and listen in a more conscious way.
MANOLO: (Charches, Granada – 1951)
Manolo was born in Charches, Granada, moving to Murcia at the age of five.
His father, a miner, passed away at the age of 54, when he was only 12 years old. Manolo began to work to support his family. Generous and hospitable, he made a living working at restaurants for many years.
Manolo shares how his father was a great reader. Besides being a miner, he was the neighborhood’s teacher, families entrusted him their children. He remembers his father sitting in front of the house, with a jug, a book and a tobacco flask.
Manolo never had time to develop hobbies while he was working, something he is willing to make up for today. For health reasons he had to retire at a younger age, and to keep his spirits high he began to build wooden toys. He started by making collages with stamps and drawing beautiful abstract compositions on wooden boards. Now he builds mills, lighthouses, playgrounds and even bullrings under request. After so many years working in the food and service industry, it is nice to see his passion for cocktails and restaurant graphics in his paintings.
For Après Objet he has made a group of friendly horse riders who travel around the Murcian fields and wear a hat to protect themselves from the sun. Manolo loves talking, he has a brilliant and avant-garde imagery where the Sea, the West and Simultanism converge.
Given our interest in textiles and workwear, we decided to give Manolo some fabric for him to paint something inspired by his horse riders. With it, we produced the pockets for ten workwear style jackets that bring us closer to his workshop, a way to transform the original and classical object and imagine new interpretations.
CAVALL FORT:
Youth game. Two teams, from four to eight participants each. An infinite variety of names and rules exist for it. As with popular crafts, games are interpreted differently according to the culture and territory, however, the movements have stayed the same throughout time.
This is the version we used to play when we were little. The players of the team stand in a row, crouched and bending their knees just slightly. The first (referred to as the Mother) leaning back against a wall or similar, the others crouched with their heads between the legs of the next player, forming a long barrier.
The players of the opposite team jump one by one over the end of the barrier trying to get as far as possible. Once they fall, they must remain seated in that same spot. They can use their hands to push themselves. If they cannot get all the team players over the opponents barrier, they lose and its the other teams turn. Once everyone has jumped, the first one in line says :
“Churro, mediamanga, mangotero, guess what comes first!” as he chooses where to place his hand: on the other hand (churro), the wrist (manga), the elbow (mediamanga) or the shoulder (mangotero.) If the other team guesses where the hand is, the teams switch roles. Clearly, the first player in the barrier (the Mother), who sees what happens, cannot speak. If the opposite team doesn’t guess or the player’s barrier collapses prematurely, the roles of the two teams remain. And so on.
Photography playing Cavall Fort: Rafa Castells
Creative direction: Après Objet
Models: Armand Carrillo, Laura Sanpedro, Luna Paiva, Ferran Lajara, Gerrit Jan Veldman, Irina Chochriakova, Romeo Erlich, Yara Erlich y Otto Oliva.
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