Mexican studio Lanza Atelier, this year's Serpentine Pavilion designer, has showcased a diverse collection of furniture at gallery AGO Projects that features reused materials such as rebar and sail fabric during Mexico City art week.

The show, called Azul y Verde, featured a wide array of furniture produced by Lanza Atelier, most of which was created for the show, with a few updated designs from past projects.

It is the second solo exhibition for the studio with AGO Projects, and similar to the first, it features a wide range of furniture created from different materials.

Studio co-founder Alessandro Arienzo told Dezeen that the diversity of the furniture present reflects the diversity of work and material carried out by Lanza Atelier itself since it was founded in 2015.

Spread across the floor of the sun-drenched glass gallery mid-way up an office building on the busy Avenida Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, the showcase centres around an expressive quarter-circle rug split between green and blue colours.

According to the studio, the rug is the unifying element for the show, reflecting its theme – "colour as a fluid and evolving concept shaped by perception and culture".

"All of the pieces show a contrast between materials, and how apparent contrasts can dissolve," studio co-founder Isabel Abascal told Dezeen.

"In many cultures from Antiquity, blue and green were referred to with a single word. How we call things actually influences how we perceive reality."

"Every piece in the show contains some kind of contrast, whether material, conceptual or geometrical."

On top of the rug are two angular, powder-coated steel pieces – a sofa and an armchair – upholstered with white up-cycled boat sail material, stitched together with blue thread that appears delicate in the thick fabric.

Next to these are a series of chairs that challenge perception. Made of wood with wicker seats, the chairs have double backs, and some are turned on their side to confuse the viewpoint.

Against one wall are shelves made from simple wooden boards that resemble scaffolding.

A high-gloss Black Flower table with a gear-like top and matching chairs that, when pushed in, make it circular, sits nearby. It is an update to a design included in some of the studio's residential work.

Also on show is a polished aluminium coffee table with a glass top that opens from one side like a mouth, allowing objects to be put under the glass so that it acts as a vitrine.

More on the sculptural side, the studio also recreated a sea coconut, at a one-to-one scale, from aluminium and foam.

Against the back wall are a series of metal works, including a lamp with a curvy wrought-iron stem that suspends a delicate paper lantern. Here, the rebar and the paper illustrate the show's central focus on contrasts.

Taken together, the pieces appear as pieces of architecture, deconstructed.

"We approach objects or furniture the same way we approach architecture; scale is not a boundary," said Abascal.

This exhibition follows a solo show by Lanza Atelier at AGO Projects in 2019, and the recent announcement that the studio was selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion in London, a prestigious commission.

Previously, the studio has worked on a range of projects, from residential architecture in Cancún to pavilions in Mexico City and elegant restaurant interiors.

The photography is by Santiago Ruiseñor.

Azul y Verde is on show at AGO Projects from 2 February to 2 May 2026. For more showcases in architecture and design, visit Dezeen Events Guide.