Lorenzo Queipo de Llano

Patricia Espinosa de los Monteros

ISBN: 978-84-128863-9-9

Year: 2024

Pages: 304

Illustrations: 138

Binding: Hardcover in chrome cardboard

Size: 24.5 x 31 cm

Published by: Madrid, El Viso Editions

Lorenzo has lived under the open sky and in palaces, in huts in Sudan and in some sophisticated New York loft. His curious eyes have learned from everything he sees, and what began as a simple exercise in personal design soon grew into a factory in Kenya with nearly thirty workers.

With a bohemian and somewhat anarchic personality, his way of working is sometimes misunderstood. He boasts of never having had a boss, but also of never having worked as one; he believes discipline is overrated when it can be replaced by intelligence and planning; he acknowledges having made many mistakes throughout his life, which in turn have been his teachers, so he thinks he should be a wise man by now. He also confesses that some of the things he does are completely wrong, and that this is part of his unique and difficult-to-copy style.

He imbues the spaces he designs with his most personal image, the fruit of his love of animals and travel, and equips them with unique pieces designed by himself. But of all his key decorative touches, perhaps the most important is the nighttime lighting, which brings back African memories of fires, lanterns, and bonfires. Those subtle lights of the African night always dance in his mind, and he tries to bring them to all his spaces.