VAL is an Award Winning London based design studio created by independent designer Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers in April 2009, specializing in furniture and accessories for the high-end market. Trained as an industrial designer and with 10 years of consistent work experience designing, making and selling furniture.The concepts behind VAL furniture are functionality, aesthetics and surprise factor.
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Valentinaʼs design fuses conceptual thinking, artistic approach and usability. What is unique about her work, is its originality, boldness, narrative and outstanding quality.Valentina offers furniture and accessories created in the line of emotional design: pieces made to last, to grow older with their owners, becoming into much more than just a material possession to them. The designs are not based in disposable transit trends. This particular take in furniture and accessories invites the user to interact with it, to play, to question, to surprise, to enjoy.
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Not only VAL offers a fresh new approach to a typical designed product through its knowledge of materials, quality and experimental working methods, but also proposes a new look into the area of conceptual furniture: a combination of great design and contemporary approach without compromising true functionality.
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EXHIBITIONS
The Ap-Art London Winter Show 2012 - Winter Wonderland selling exhibition: collective exhibition organized by Ap-Art, Adrian Palengat’s gallery. London 22 November – 22 December 2012.
London Design Festival 2012: The Wild Bodged Chair, Southbank Centre, London.
In collaboration with Designersblock
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Mexico Through Your Senses, Mexican Embassy to the UK.
London, June 2012
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Pinta Art Fair - Pinta Design: Mexico, Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
London, May 2012
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‘Design Mexico: The Contemporaries’ Ministry of Economy Gallery
Mexico City May – July 2012
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Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City: ʻMexican Factory: Contemporary Industrial Designʼ
October 2011 to February 2012. Mexico City.
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Design Week Mexico City: The Ghost of a Chair.
In collaboration with BLEND. October 2011, Mexico City.
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ENADII 2011: National Summit of Architecture and Interior Design.
Mexico City.
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London Design Festival 2011: Eden, the Tenango Chair for Natuzzi
ʻChair Affairʼ In collaboration with Studio 180° interiors.
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Surreal Woman: Celebrating 75 years of the Surrealist movement.
Collective exhibition curated by Guts for Garters, London.
June 2011
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New York Design Week 2011
In collaboration with Wanted Design
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Feira Internacional de Lisboa: INTER Casa Concept October 2010
International Fair of Lisbon – Parque das Nações
In collaboration with Marcela Brunken & Fabrico Infinito
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London Design Festival 2010: 13 Ghosts, a major installation of contemporary furniture
In collaboration with Designersblock
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TWO’S A PAIR: Friday Late at the Victoria and Albert Museum
TOQUES – Connectivity by Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers
Part of the London Design Festival 2010
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Pulse London with Selected by Central Saint Martins
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, June 2010
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Pinta Art Fair London
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, May 2010
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2010
Farmiloe Building, London
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International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) NYC 2010
In collaboration with BEDG – UK Trade and Investment award 2010
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Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan 2010: Abstract Tenoch I & II / Erotica Cutouts
In collaboration with Designersblock – UK Trade and Investment award 2010
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London Design Festival 2009: The Ghost of a Chair
In collaboration with Designersblock
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Pulse London with the Innovation Centre of Central Saint Martins
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, June 2009
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Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan 2009: The Prickly Pair Chairs
In collaboration with Designersblock – UK Trade and Investment award 2009
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BIO
Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers (Mexico City, 1977) Award winning, product and interior designer based in London. Before entering Central Saint Martins to complete an MA in Contemporary Furniture (London 2005- 2007) she graduated in Industrial Design with honors from the Iberoamerican University in 2000, Mexico City. Her work has been featured in a wide range of international publications and media (Once Upon a Chair, by Die Gestalten Verlag, 2009; Architectural Digest, Vogue Living, cover of Marie Claire Deco, Wallpaper*, among others) and selected for design exhibitions in NYC, Mexico, London, Milan and Paris, where she is also represented by Gosserez Art Gallery and Adel Assanti in London. She is a regular guest lecturer and speaker in several design colleges throughout the UK and America. Currently a professional furniture and interiors designer and consultant, Valentina has been developing private commissions and conceptual furniture for the residential and commercial industry in Europe and Mexico since 2007.
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