L’AVIVA’s work begins with process. 

Materials are treated as active participants in shaping form. Through long-term collaboration with skilled workshops and makers, the studio works within established techniques while allowing space for variation, experimentation, and evolution—tradition functioning not as reference, but as a working methodology that informs proportion, structure, and restraint.

Based between New York and Mexico City, the studio operates across contexts and cultures, maintaining proximity to both contemporary design practice and deeply rooted making traditions. This dual presence shapes how the work is carried out: attentive, iterative, and grounded in daily, hands-on exchange.

L’AVIVA is anchored by a studio team that operates as the core of a larger, interconnected network of collaborators, workshops, and partners. The work reflects shared authorship and sustained relationships, developed over time through trust, continuity, and collective problem-solving.