Dezeen selects 11 Mexico design studios you should know in 2026

After a busy Mexico City art week, Dezeen's US editor Ben Dreith selects 11 studios whose recent work stands out, from decorative pieces that incorporate steel and candles to a bench with pneumatic-tube cushions.

The following list represents a swathe of designers at various points in their careers, working at different scales and in different categories, from furniture and lighting to full-fledged interiors and architecture. Most, but not all, practice in Mexico City.

Contrary to many contemporary highlights in Mexican design, which often feature monolithic or raw forms, many of the studios on this list focus on clean lines and constructions.

Read on for 11 stand-out studios:

Lanza Atelier

Known as the architecture studio selected to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion, Lanza Atelier also dabbles in industrial design and interiors, creating some of the most stylish restaurants in Mexico City, such as Ciena in Colonia Condesa.

Recently, they showcased a variety of conceptual furniture at Ago Projects, including a metal bench with cushions made out of recycled sails and a black-metal table with chairs that slot in to create a circle.

Formant Studio

The interior designers behind listening room Modular, created in the offices of photographer Fabián Martínez, Formant Studio custom-designs much of the furniture used in its interior projects.

Like many of its interior design schemes, this furniture features simple materials and forms and leans on the contrast between dark woods and aluminium, leather and chrome.

Panorammma

Panorammma is well-known for its stylish use of gothic elements, such as chainmail, with a breakout appearance during nomadic gallery Masa's takeover of a Rockefeller Center underground post office in 2022.

Recently, Panorammma's founder Maika Palazuelos opened a small vitrine gallery, Ovni, where she showed a collaboration with musician Sites featuring a chandelier made out of reused research equipment such as speciality centrifuge tubes.

Kenya Rodríguez Studio

Guadalajara-based Kenya Rodríguez Studio showcased work during the art week at an exhibition celebrating the scenographic design photography of Alejandro Ramírez Orozco at Difane.

The designer's lighting, in floor, pendant and table versions, features elements of mid-century modernism and art deco design, with natural wood colours and fibre. Elegant hinges give the pieces a sense of movement, while its large proportions add a contemporary feel.

Lucas Cantú

One part of iconic architecture duo Tezontle, Cantú, represented by local art gallery Peana, has spent the last few years working on a series of increasingly complex works.

Though he still works with large-scale objects that evoke Mesoamerican forms, this recent work functions at minuscule levels, integrating early mechanical technology such as clocks and simple lights for an unusual decorative effect.

Esteban Tamayo Ramos 

Known primarily as a fashion and brand designer, Ramos has quickly become one of the most exciting young designers working in Mexico, with a tripartite showing at the nomadic fair Unique X Design's showcase in the city this month.

Complemented by blue plinths, the pieces included a bench with cushions made from pneumatic tubes, natural-fibre sconces and a chair combining metal and woven elements.

Euclid

For Zona Maco's design section this year, contract furniture company Euclid created a series of aluminium furniture with blue accents, accompanied by technical drawings meant to make the furniture open source.

According to the studio, the pieces were meant to show the importance of aluminium in a time of trade tensions between the US and Mexico. The open-source design is meant to contrast with protectionist US policies, making the collection a "political object as much as an aesthetic one".

Regina Moreno

Director and co-founder of gallery Toro Manifesto and former employee at Mexican design studio Breuer, Moreno mixes symbolism with fascinating combinations of materials and forms.

For Toro Manifesto's showing at Unique X Design, Moreno created a table that incorporates "austere" lines at first glance. Upon closer inspection, there are multiple homages to stereotypical symbols of the Old West, from leather patterns to gun barrels.

A-G Estudio

Led by designer Andrés Gutiérrez, A-G Estudio is known for decking out its Roma Norte home base with rotating colourful installations and for its blocky furniture that features sleek monumental Mesoamerican forms.

Gutiérrez' most recent collection features black woods and polished black lacquer, while he also released a whole collection of outdoor furniture at the Zona Maco design section.

Sukre Studio

Part of this year's emerging section at Zona Maco's design section, Sukre creates highly functional designs from simple materials at small scales that encourage a "more present and attentive relationship with the ordinary".

Its Enso stool comes in two different colourways and features a retracting shelving system that allows it to function as a shelf, stool or step.

Xpan

Led by multidisciplinary designer Moisés Sacal Hadid, Xpan works in media and installation design.

Its installation design, as seen in a void-like space it created in Mexico City and a strikingly monochrome Guadalajara store, features multi-media elements such as sound, light and video that are meant to "function as active structures" engaging participants in networks.

Main photo is by Achach Fotografia. 

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