Matico for Lunartik Mini Tea Tour 2011

Matico is part of Lunartik’s Mini Tea Tour 2011 hosted by designer Matt “Lunartik” Jones. We were invited to customize his platform toy and make our own cuppa tea! Matico’s horns are made of crin, a traditional 200-year-old Chilean technique that consists of handweaving horse hair. This project was conducted in conjunction with Marcela Sepúlveda, a crin expert artisan and a native of Rari, a town located 300 km south of the Chilean capital in the Andean foothills.

The Mini-Tea Tour debuted on the 6th April 2011, as part of the Pictoplasma Character Walk in Berlin. It was a true success and a much loved exhibition.
The tour traveled to Vienna (Sixxa Store) and the UK (Forbidden Planet Mega Store-London, Cambridge Art Salon-Cambridge, Fat Buddha Store-Glasgow,
The SHO Gallery & Shop-Cardiff, Raygun Comics–Richmond). Still touring in 2013!

Photography by Paolo Remedy