CULEBRA - Cathedra Low
by Gabriel Escámez
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Cathedra Low is a chair from the Culebra collection by Gabriel Escámez for Cobalto Studio. It works in the opposite register from the taller Cathedra: low, wide, horizontal.
The backrest is a thick panel of textured black wood, set upright at the rear of the chair. It intersects a smoother off-white horizontal seat that spans the full width of the structure. The base uses the same textured white finish as the seat, grounding the composition in a material continuity that makes the black backrest read as a formal insertion.
The two-tone logic is unambiguous. Black and off-white are not shades here but colour choices, and the intersecting planes (the vertical backrest against the horizontal seat) carry the design without applied decoration.
Gabriel Escámez directs Cobalto Studio from Barcelona. With AD 100 recognition, the studio works across furniture, interior design, and the editorial project La Cobalta. Cathedra Low is available through Monde Singulier.
W 70 x D 60 x H 45 cm
W 27.56 x D 23.62 x H 17.72 in
Materials: Ebonized Wood, Chrome Stainless Steel
About
Gabriel Escámez
Born in Barcelona in 1987, Gabriel Escámez is an AD 100-recognised designer and the director of COBALTO STUDIO, a multidisciplinary Barcelona practice working across art, fashion, interior design, and furniture.
His formation in Fine Arts and Interior Design grounds a practice that refuses narrow categorisation. At COBALTO STUDIO, Escámez develops projects that move between painting, sculpture, craft, and spatial design, each guided by a consistent visual language rooted in Mediterranean sensibility. Rationalism and vernacular simplicity are constants: materials used honestly, forms reduced to their essentials, nothing added without reason.
Alongside the studio, Escámez founded La Cobalta, an editorial centred on objects, lighting, ceramics, and books. The venture reflects the same discipline, selecting and presenting work that carries cultural weight without theatrical staging.
The AD 100 listing placed him among a group of practitioners whose work shapes contemporary interior culture across Spain and beyond. It is the industry's most cited recognition in architecture and design, and for Cobalto Studio it confirms a practice built on craft logic rather than market cycles.
His connection to the Mediterranean runs through the work as a structural attitude rather than surface reference: an attention to craft traditions, popular culture, and a kind of beauty that accumulates through use. That orientation sets Cobalto Studio apart from studios that position themselves through eclecticism or novelty alone.
Works by Gabriel Escámez are available through Monde Singulier.
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