La Muerte Tiene Permiso

La Muerte Tiene Permiso is a small independent brand that arose from a desire to share the Mexican heritage of artisans through a contemporary lens.

Omar Ortiz Franco created La Muerte Tiene Permiso* to celebrate the unique materials and historic traditions of his country with a contemporary finish. His design inspiration comes from the vernacular materials and craft traditions from around Mexican histories, folk stories, cinema and photography. The collection is equally informed by Omar’s architectural design aesthetic, which focuses on clean lines and attention to materials, and his desire to explore what it means to dwell in a home.

The studio works in partnership with traditional workshops around the country, many of which have been running for generations, with some dating more than 160 years. Faced with the global environmental crisis, the team has taken solace in the ways in which communities across Mexico have created useful objects from the natural materials found around them, and degrade them back into the earth at the end of the item’s life. The studio is proud to contribute back to this tradition and believes that an object made with love, thought and knowledge of technique can change our ways of consumption.