We’re taking our Latin-American backgrounds to task by integrating the traditions of weaving and basketry into the design of our Leonia Luminaire. A desire to experiment with humanizing our modern designs with traditional techniques and resources has inspired us to create a hybrid, in collaboration with fellow Latin-American designer and fiber artist Michèle Guevara, that incorporates new materials and technologies with traditional textile art processes. It is a reaction from more than one hundred years of Ornament and Crime where “the evolution of culture marched with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” And from our very own experience of inadvertently removing ornament from our designs. This is an opportunity to celebrate our cultural background and reconnect with the essential aspects of being human.