Stone Designs
CUTU & EVA
Cutu Mazueolos and Eva Prego started their design
studio Stone Designs more than 20 years ago, and
today have clients all around the world. Offices are
to be found in Shanghai, Tokyo and Moscow, as
well as their home town of Madrid. Their designs
have earned them great popularity among
Swedish manufacturers thanks to a Nordic feeling
which surpasses even local designers. Maybe it’s
because of an aversion to an ever-more artificial
world? ‘We feel a strong affinity with both Nordic
and Japanese culture and aesthetics. We talk the
same language’, says Eva Prego. ‘Furthermore,
colour is a universal language, which people
understand and can interpret on their own, almost
like abstract art.’ Cutu Mazueolos has a past as a
professional snowboarder and is a keen practitioner
of extreme sports. ‘I really find myself at ease with
nature; everything else is plastic. Worst of all
is social media. Where is the taste of life in all these
plastic products which surround us?’ Stone Design
works for many internationally well-known and
high-profile clients, as well as providing interior
design for ski resorts both in Spain and Japan. Both
Eva and Cutu emphasise that they want to improve
people’s lives by creating a new relationship with
both object and surroundings.
FAVOURITE MUSIC?
‘We don’t really listen to Flamenco, but my
life-long favourite is Debussy’s Claire De Lune’,
says Cutu Mazuelos. ‘We also appreciate
Nordic music like Sigur Rós and First Aid Kit.’
THE LAST BOOK YOU READ?
Tratamiento psycológico de la hipcondría
y la ansiedad generalizada. Who really
believes in the image of designers all clad
in black going from success to success?
It’s a tough, stressful life; you travel all day,
you’ve got all these deadlines, it hurts a lot,
and you really have to curb your anxiety and
hypochondria. I believe that in order to make
people happy, you must also allow yourself
to experience sadness once in a while.