JOYFUL OBJECTS, YES!
Joyful Objects, Yes! is a Mexico City design studio founded in 2021 by industrial designer Joy Valdez, originally from Mérida, Yucatán. Her practice approaches furniture and objects as opportunities for experimentation, using colour, curved outlines and unexpected proportions to animate familiar functions. The studio’s work draws on Mexican culture and craft traditions. Woven fibres, wood, resin and fibreglass offer different ways to develop a form, from a textured surface to a continuous coloured volume. Playfulness becomes a design language expressed through the construction and character of each piece. The use of chuspata connects several pieces to local weaving traditions, placing texture alongside the studio’s exploration of line and colour.
The La Celebración mirrors trace sinuous frames in coloured fibreglass or woven natural fibre. Jolgorio seating combines woven surfaces, metal structures and wooden spheres, while the Kuni lamp takes inspiration from the sun. Ventura tables refer to the geometry of pre-Hispanic architecture through stepped forms in wood. Developed with Azotea Studio, the Lola collection celebrates female creativity through community, playfulness and Mexican craftsmanship. A bed, nightstands, vanity and chaise lounge extend that shared approach across different functions. Together, these collections show a studio interested in how objects can introduce character and enjoyment into a room, giving traditional materials and contemporary processes an individual, open-ended expression.







