At this pure and elegant coffee collection, designers from Mexico and Colombia gather their cultures and celebrate traditions.  

Brands with Latin American provenance often evoke kaleidoscopic images of sensuous style, framed either by tropical glamour or an exuberant kind of coquetry. While this typecast may seem accurate enough for some designers and products, new collaborative project between Mexican Designer José Bermúdez  and Colombian Designers Juan Carlos Franco from Vrokka and Francisco Jaramillo from Fango Studio is completely different.

Samaná project unifies the coffee culture known worldwide in both countries. People in Mexico and Colombia cannot start their day without a cup of coffee. After lunch they usually drink another cup and in the middle of the afternoon drink one more. Here, coffee is a product that you can find not only just brewed or mixed with water but on desserts, appetizers, cocktails and more.

Geographically these countries also share coffee growing climate: elevated mountains were coffee is easy to harvest together with tropical environment and fertile soil gives a very good result is the cup. Colombia and Mexico have many regions were you can find one of the finest coffees around the world. The name of the project, Samaná comes exactly from one of the coffee growing areas in Colombia, between the cities of Bogotá and Medellin, that is famous for its quality product.

Having very caffeinated culture and desire to unite people around coffee drinking tradition, two old friends, Jose Bermudez and Juan Franco, decided to create something unique for all the coffee lovers. Later as the project grew, Francisco Jaramillo joined the team to polish it and add some final touches. The minimalistic collection consist of a container and coffee ware.

The container is inspired by the shape of wooden boxes used by coffee growers when selecting the best coffee beans. It is the exact height as the original containers, used by coffee growers in Mexico. The of the container can be opened so to store coffee ware inside, opened or closed it’s surface, covered with leather, can be used to prepare your coffee. The leather is used to have a more warm surface and to keep all the coffee accessories inside the container safe.

Samaná coffee ware is coffee equipment for manual brewing, designed specifically to create a special bound between a person and coffee brewing process and to awaken their senses. The collection includes home ware pieces for preparing and drinking coffee. Small wooden sticks are attached to individual little bowls, also made from wood, to form spoons that can be used for measuring grounds and stirring coffee. Coffee cups are made of ceramics and coloured in a rustic cream colour.
A pour-over maker comes with a filter holder made of oak, instead of more commonly used glass or ceramic. Oak wood seeks to give texture and warmth to the shape of each piece, generating a unique experience. Ceramics play with the sense of touch, giving a feeling of the material in its natural state. Other pieces in the collection include more ceramic vessels with fitted tops, and small wooden plates.

As designers shared, they created the whole collection for coffee lovers around the world, including themselves, that wants to gather and share stories or just have a good chat with a cup of coffee, making Samaná a meeting point for people of all cultures, no matter how far they are.