Francisco Jaramillo is an award-winning Colombian designer and the creative director of Fango.

Bench (as seen above) and Sofa (as seen below, on left) are two pieces from Jaramillo’s neo-folk furniture collection Ibuju. They are a take on the primitive geometries of wooden objects.

This series rethinks design and the manufacturing of native wooden pieces to communicate a deeper story.  

Concerned about the indiscriminate logging and overuse of the Amazon woods and seeking out a native alternative, Jaramillo and the weavers of Fango discovered a “vine” root that grows around the trunks of trees in the Colombian Amazon.

This fiber is called yaré. Indigenous communities typically use yaré for handcrafted weaving.

Bench and Sofa are each made of yaré and metal.

Bench appears to be three steady logs balanced over two tree stumps. It measures in at 120 x 45 x 43h cm.

Sofa beckons one to sit. The “logs” at the foot appear almost to be wheels. It is 210 x 85 x 95h cm.

This full furniture collection contains eight pieces. See the whole Ibuju collection here.