Born in Monterrey, Mexico and currently based in New York, Leonardo Garza is an architect and designer who cut his teeth working on the first Tadao Ando project built in Latin America — which may be where he developed his minimal but quietly powerful aesthetic. His Ambient Stool, with its delicate steel frame and sheer acrylic top, evokes the sensation that the piece is half-present. When several pieces are grouped together, the stool’s thin walls blur the boundaries to become a seamlessly larger furniture piece.

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