Founded in 2010 by Mariana Otero and Yerko Zlatar, Puna is a Lima-based design brand focused on woven textiles, interior decor, and furniture that fuse graphics with contemporary design. Inspired by traditional Andean craft, infused with graphics and modern design, they are a brand and design studio, intertwining their smaller design projects with larger ones.

Partners in life and in design, the duo spotted a gap in the market for crafted pieces designed with a contemporary eye. Inspired by their surroundings and their travels, Otero and Zlatar first project together was the house Zlatar was renovating when they met. Considered their first project together, they began by upscaling many found items, before deciding to launch their work as a brand. As a trained interior designer, Otero amased her network of artisans withwhom they now work, while Zlatar leads the art graphics that define their textiles. As a philosophy, they only design what they would want to have, and often do have, in their own house.

FOUNDER: Mariana Otero and Yerko Zlatar

LOCATION: Lima, Peru

MATERIALS: Alpaca Wool

The small city of San Pedro de Caja, about five hours outside of Lima, is the Peruvian center of textiles and tapestries. With a rich textile history, ninety percent of inhabitants-mostly women- engage in the traditional Andean craft. Passed down through generations the weaving is down on large, wooden looms using a variety of different methods to create different designs.

The wool used in San Pedro de Caja textiles comes from the local sheep, who are raised to support the ancient practice and bustling artistic center.

Puna's Culto collection, made of primarily of the geometric cushion covers, is an exploration of form, memory, and the sacred. Inspired by the precise interlocking of stones in ancestral architecture and the symbolic geometry of Wari textiles, the collection translates these languages into contemporary objects that inhabit the threshold between design and art. The fabrics reveal the symbolic density of Andean weavings, amplifying their patterns as carriers of meaning. Together, these pieces summon a space where matter becomes memory and form, a spiritual gesture.