Mexican furniture, lighting and interior designer Gloria Cortina (born 1972) believes that design should be determined by an expression of culture and craft, not merely or primarily a brand identity. Her approach to design, shaped by the philosophies of Mexican masters such as Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, seeks to consolidate European and modernist influences with Mexico's own arts and crafts heritage in pieces characterised by luxurious materials like tropical wood, stone, textured metal and rich textiles. Instead of offering a conventional monographic survey of Cortina's design, which consciously eludes easy branding, Gloria Cortina: Mexico seeks instead to present Cortina's elegant and precise work through the ideas and concepts that have shaped it, connecting her pieces to an inherited Mexican culture and aesthetic as well as honoring the designer's unique, sensual approach to material and form. This book approaches design in a singular way. The last thing that interests Gloria Cortina is to show her work simply as a brand. She believes design should be a contemporary expression of art and culture. The images and texts in these pages do not therefore transmit her work in an obvious way. On the contrary, they reveal, subtly and exquisitely, many of Cortina's essential ideas and the true character of her exceptionally sensual designs and compositions, in which the esthetics of the Mexican cultural heritage are reflected in the vision of a twenty-first-century creator. 176 photographs