I'm Gerardo Frutos Dordelly, an Italian-Mexican design engineer, working across form, space and surface.

Portrait of Gerardo Dordelly — editorial, natural light, dark ground
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Experience

Sealine

The red-hulled explorer yacht Akula on its cradle outside the build shed, mirrored in the wet yard.
Rossinavi / Akula / 2024
  • surface
  • space

Parametric 3D models for yacht interiors above 40m, held to 0.1mm tolerances through production. Material and finish specification bridging design intent and manufacturability.

  • Benetti
  • Azimut
  • Rossinavi
  • Falcon

Gum Design

Four Paesaggi Sospesi tables — stone tops on slim black steel frames — grouped on a striped rug in a dark interior.
Antoniolupi / Paesaggi Sospesi / 2022
  • form
  • surface

Six complete product concepts for Antoniolupi, from material research through high-fidelity renders and physical prototypes.

  • Antoniolupi

Politecnico di Milano

The Politecnico di Milano design campus at Bovisa — building B1, red and yellow panels over glazing, bicycles parked along the front.
Politecnico di Milano / Campus Bovisa / 2020

The move from Mexico City to Italy.

Roku Black

A living room under a slatted walnut ceiling, with a tan leather sofa and a custom walnut console running the length of a grey settee.
Roku Black / Residential interior / 2020
  • form
  • space

Premium home product systems, and multidisciplinary teams executing large-scale interiors where custom furniture meets structure.

JFR Arquitectos

A double-height WeWork lounge tucked under an oak stair, its full wall of open shelving filled with books.
WeWork / Reforma Latino / 2019
  • space

9,500m² of WeWork office space delivered in four months, leading 35 craftsmen. CNC-based modular furniture systems for low-income housing.

  • WeWork

AoMa Studio

The Live Aqua San Miguel de Allende dining room — a live-edge parota table under exposed beams and a woven pendant.
Grupo Posadas / Live Aqua SMA / 2019
  • space
  • surface

FF&E across luxury hotels, owning the pipeline from spatial brief to production specification. Cost analysis and supplier negotiation for large-scale installations.

Prix Versailles — Live Aqua San Miguel de Allende

  • Grupo Posadas

Ezequiel Farca

Magnolia House at dusk — stacked travertine volumes with warm-lit interiors above a lit external stair.
Ezequiel Farca / Magnolia House / 2018
  • form

High-end consumer products from concept to production for private clients.

Good Design Award 2018, Bath & Accessories — Lox collection for URREA

  • URREA

What I do

Three disciplines. One throughline.

  • Form.

    Products that resolve mechanical, ergonomic and emotional behaviour into single, considered objects — built for manufacture.

    • Industrial
    • Product
    • Hardware
    • Lighting
  • Space.

    Interiors and architectural moments that move with light. Mexican coastline, Italian rationalist control.

    • Interior
    • Hospitality
    • Exhibition
  • Surface.

    Colour, material and finish development for mobility and product. Bio-composites, sintered minerals, anodised metals — researched, not styled.

    • CMF
    • Trend
    • Mobility
    • Material R&D

Software

  • SolidWorks
  • Rhinoceros
  • AutoCAD
  • Blender
  • KeyShot
  • Adobe Suite
  • Ansys Granta MS

Materials

  • Metal — advanced
  • Wood — advanced
  • Polymers — intermediate

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • English
  • German — basic

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