UNL/NDE
Grey Sheep
Location
new york / united states
University
Instituto Europeo di Design (IED)
Graduation year
2014
UNL/NDE was born way before it became UNL/NDE.
The brand takes shape from the need to create a common denominator among the ideas,concepts and shapes created from paper, cardboard or any material on hand and aimed to explain what has ignited, inspired by surrounding daily stimuli. María Flores, trained as fashion accesories designer at the IED in Madrid, multidisciplinar in her daily life, sensitive and pragmatic, started tracing a first draft of the brand concept up in her mind. Mateo Fernández-Muro, architect, restless and compulsive designer, moves the team to NY to study a graduate program at Parsons School of Design and gives shape to Maria’s first sketches. It is in New York where UNL/NDE first comes to light in 2015. All of our designs arise in our little atelier in Harlem -where we also handcraft the jewelry pieces - to be finely handmade in Spain under a responsible production. Inspired by art, architecture and organic lines in nature, we try to achieve beauty, functionality and simplicity through the wisest handcrafts tradition. We understand our design practice as an experimentation and exploration of the edges arising between disciplines, ideas, spaces, shapes and objects.
