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ara Regal has a background in engineering and design and works at the intersection between design and art. Based in Inca, her practice is grounded in material experimentation and manual processes, reimagining locally sourced discarded materials. After graduating from an engineering programme in Galicia, where she is originally from, and completing design internships in London, she attended a product design master's programme at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. This programme, which focused on materials, processes and sustainability, shaped her approach to design, encouraging her to embrace a pragmatic approach fed by intuition and improvisation when assembling found components. Following a design residency in Hong Kong, she was recruited by Camper to work as an interior and set designer in Mallorca. The forward-thinking brand gave her plenty of opportunities to investigate and experiment with contemporary interpretations and applications of traditional techniques.

In 2018, in parallel to working with Camper, she set up her own practice as a set designer and furniture maker, developing projects ranging from objects and spatial interventions to scenographic work. Since 2021, she is solely focusing on her studio practice.
She sources materials locally; travelling across Mallorca, she collects components from construction sites and recycling facilities, which she later transforms through diverse processes — altering the scraps to create a renewed base material, or letting them stand as a foundation to be further layered and coated. Sara Regal’s CMF (color, material, finishes) concept is driven by process and material, with a distinctive sensitivity to colour and a continuous search for new narratives through matter. She says, “Colour is part of the process, often dictated by the bonding material”.