AriMexico — a design monograph by Raquel Guardia
New · 2026
The New Book

AriMexico.

A design monograph by Raquel Guardia tracing the language she coined — where the modernism of Mexican craft meets the restraint of the Sonoran Desert.

Through materials, palettes, and the rooms that taught her how to compose, the book maps a fusion of handcrafted texture and desert-quiet minimalism — from the looms of Teotitlán to the patios of Polanco to the light of the Arizona high desert.

Inside the Monograph

Three places. One language.

The Loom — inside the monograph
I

The Loom

Teotitlán del Valle · Oaxaca

Where the book opens: the Zapotec workshops that taught Raquel that texture is architecture. Cochinea-dyed wool, five-hundred-year-old patterns, and the looms that never stopped.

The Apartment — inside the monograph
II

The Apartment

Polanco, Mexico City

The Polanco standard of ease — rooms that breathe, objects that belong, and the afternoon light that taught her to stop arranging and start composing.

The Desert — inside the monograph
III

The Desert

Sonoran Arizona

The restraint chapter: adobe, travertine, and the discipline of earning every object — where Mexican warmth meets desert minimalism and AriMexico™ takes its final form.

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GUARDIA / DESIGNS

Modernism with Mexican Soul

An interior and landscape design studio creating warm, refined, livable spaces at the meeting of modern Mexican craft and Arizona desert minimalism — our AriMexico™ sensibility. Full-service interiors, landscape direction, renovations, e-design, bespoke sourcing, and custom wallpaper, delivered white glove.

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