Clara Pocset, the woman who redefined Latin American design

Before expanding throughout Mexico with different variations in its design, materials and degree of inclination until it becomes an elementary piece of popular crafts, the butyque at some point in the colonial period to the Gulf of Mexico, where it was reinterpreted according to the context.

For a good part of his career, Clear Palasc dissected this popular piece and was through it that expressed the synthesis of its designs, from the union of what popular and functional with the modern; Always with an inherent concern for the context (who would use it, in what climate and land, etc).

Paris Cinema

CLARA PAL ARCHIVE. Cidi. FA. UNAM.

Clara Palats and Mexican architects

Porset was convinced that the environment within any project covered the same importance as architecture, hence it was declared against the term «interior decoration» for considering it incomplete.

From its perspective, the interior design demanded solutions both aesthetic as functional Specific for each context and considered that there were few architects who paid the same attention to the interior atmosphere and its design.

For the 40s, the written and material production of POST causes architects such as Mario Pani, Luis Barragán and Max Cetto They look for it to create the furniture of different projects, such as the Ortega house (1940), el La Raza Hospital or the Paris Cinema (both of 1954), all from a reinterpretation from the modern of Mexican popular crafts, using natural textiles and other materials typical of their original production process.

However, the most important collaboration of Clear Palasc It was the one he made with Mario Pani on the occasion of the construction of the first housing project in Mexico City, the German president urban center (CUPA) in 1947.