Pitao Armchair

Open Edition, 2020

For EWE Studio’s first armchair piece, the studio continues redefining Mexican vast legacy of cultures, precisely taking a closer look at the Zapotec civilization, who were the pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico.

The Pitao Armchair got its inspiration from the Zapotec God of Rain figure “Pitao Cocijo” and the glyph C, which was used in the representation of the god, as figures in their headdresses or as vases in their hands.

Glyph C symbolic shape was the direct inspiration behind the armchair’s backrest form.