About the Author

James Boyd Niven is an inveterate traveler who has lived in Europe and New York, where he studied fashion, architecture, and photography before settling down in his hometown of Buenos Aires. Twice winner of the Design Award at Buenos Aires's prestigious Casa FOA design exhibition, his projects have been published in both AD Espana and AD Germany and London's Sunday Telegraph, and he was selected by AD France as one of the top 80 designers worldwide. Diego Flores, is an Uruguayan curator, who has worked for 20 years as an editor and writer in the publishing industry in the fields of architecture, interior design, and urbanization, developing a peculiar knowledge of the handicrafts culture and legacy of Uruguay.