photo: ©Eduardo Manzana
Eli Gutierrez is a cosmopolitan designer born in Valencia (Spain).
After completing her studies in her home city, she moved to London to study a Master in Product Design at the Royal College of Art. This next step will help her to shape the clear and elegant vision of her own language honing her keen sense for materials, colors and textures. After this experience she has been living in Milan and Paris where she has collaborated with some of the most well know design studios as Patricia Urquiola, Philippe Starck and India Mahdavi.
At the end of 2017, she founded her own studio between Paris and Valencia, focusing on product design, interior design, installations and concept creation. Her cosmopolitan and cross-cultural approach can be defined as a « World Citizen», an explorer attentive to detail, a traveller with a contemporary and incisive look remodeling the traditional codes of our environment, featuring unique embedded stories, often expressed with an eloquent and fresh elegance.
There is a sensitivity and identity in her work that emphasizes the function, the material and the detail. An unconditional love for craftsmanship along with an observation of new technologies and a true flair for color, authentic materials and textures, makes her distinctive language, always without forgetting the consideration and respect for all of the details and steps necessary to create an unique Project. She combines her professional activity with giving classes at different Universities such as Cardenal Herrera CEU University in Valencia, IE in Madrid and Barreira A+D in Valencia.
CLIENTS : ACTIU (SP), Blacktone by Jose Martinez Medina (SP), Blasco&Vila (SP), La Cartuja de Sevilla (SP), Chevalier Edition (FR), Cimenterie de la Tour (FR), Corda Lock (SP), Gancedo (SP), Geelli (IT), Instituto Cervantes (SP), Madlab (SP), LZF lamps (SP), MEMO International (CH/FR), Missana (SP), NT Forest (SP), Signorini Rubinetterie (IT), Sofiathinks (SP), SKLD studio (SP), TALES technology (SP), Universidad de Jaen (SP), WDCValencia2022 (SP), Zavotti (MX/SP)
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2025 - IF Design Awards – Rayure for Zavotti
2022 - GOOD DESIGN AWARD - OMMA suspension for LZF Lamps
2022 - Mention DELTA Awards - NUANCE FR in/out for Gancedo
2022 - Bronze DELTA Awards - PLY for Geelli
2020 - BEST OF SPAIN - AD Magazine Spain edition
2019 - Archiproducts Design Awards Longlisted with French chair, Blacktone by J. Martinez Media
2009 - First Prize INJUVE Awards
2003 - Second prize C’DIM Furniture Design Contest