Barragán's first house hands its rooms to a three-year argument: French designers sent to work inside Mexican workshops, and the objects that came back.
WHY IT’S WORTH IT
1Six pairings this edition, each a French designer embedded with a Mexican workshop. Matali Crasset with And Jacob on stone and glass, Théophile Blandet with Toro Manifesto on a kinetic lamp drawn out of the Voladores de Papantla.
2Three years of the program land in one house, so you read the arc instead of a single season of results.
3The setting does half the work. Barragán's first mature house is still lived in by the Ortega family and almost never opens to the public.