The Workshop of dreams is a creative journey that brings together four of Spain’s most exciting architects and designers, with inspiring talents from diverse cultural fields, in a celebration of Spanish creativity and craftsmanship with wood.

The process of design usually begins with a client who has an idea or a clear need for a building, space or object. Please design a three-bedroom house. Our town needs a new library. I would like a new winter coat. Then, enter the professional to further research the problem, work out possible solutions and prepare the documents for execution.

But what happens when the normal process is called into question and the roles of client and professional mesh? What happens when there are creators and inspirers who work closely together defining both the “problem” and the “solution”? The result is The Workshop of Dreams.

This challenge presents a unique opportunity to start with a clean slate. The first step is for the designer and inspirer to get to know each other, to push each other to break down boundaries and to freely explore new ideas together. The resulting objects to be made are the dreams of the inspirer, but also the dreams of the designer, to attempt a new type of design or employ ideas that have been going around in his/her head, but have not had the chance to be realized.

Introduction by Martha Thorne