Jorge Penadés was born in Málaga in 1985. He hails from a family of cabinet makers and studied Interior Design in Barcelona before graduating with a MA in Product Design from IED Madrid. He established his own practice in the Spanish capital after his graduation in 2015.
His office works across a variety of areas ranging from new materials to furniture, interiors, one-off commissions and temporary architectures for different clients such as Camper, Berluti, BD Barcelona, The Future Perfect or Adidas.
Past awards include the AD Nuevo Talento Campari in 2017, the ICON Volkswagen Design Award in 2018 and the Frame Award on the category of Single-brand Store of the Year in 2021. His work is part of the permanent collection at the Vitra Design Museum.
In 2019 Jorge founded Extraperlo: a curatorial platform that stimulates an interrogative take and offers a progressive design culture beyond comercial and institutional contexts.