Trasto Studio
Where Junk is Born
Welcome to our workshop
It all begins in a small workshop by the Mediterranean.
There are no production lines here, nor machines mindlessly churning out parts. Each Trasto chair and table is handcrafted, one by one, with care given to every shape, every color, and every small detail.
The wood is selected, patiently sanded, and prepared to become more than just furniture: a piece designed to accompany childhood for years.
Our workshop is a peaceful place, full of pigments, tools, and sketches. A space where childlike imagination and artisan craftsmanship meet.
From wood to the Trasto universe
The Process
Each piece goes through a careful, slow, and completely handcrafted process.
First, the structure is prepared, then the most special part begins: the artistic intervention.
Diego paints, composes, and brings to life the visual universe of each collection. Colors are applied in layers, details are drawn one by one, and the child's name is integrated into the design itself.
When the piece is finished, it is protected with finishes designed for daily use and to preserve the illustration intact over time.
The result is not just a chair or a table. It is a piece with a story, created to grow with its user.
DIEGO MESTRE FERNÁNDEZ (Valencia, 1987).
The artist
Each piece is first born as an idea and ends as a hand-painted work.
In the workshop, we do not work with fixed templates or repeated processes. Each chair and each table is approached as a small canvas: the concept appears, the sketch is drawn, and then the paint begins to shape the visual universe of each collection.
Colors, illustrations, and details are applied one by one, with the same attention that would be given to an artistic work. That's why no two pieces are exactly alike. Each Trasto retains something unrepeatable: small brushstrokes, slight variations in color, and decisions made in the creative process itself that give each piece its own character.
Diego Mestre, the artist behind Trasto, started drawing at a very young age, excelling in various drawing competitions during his childhood. That initial impulse led him to naturally follow the path of art.
He completed his artistic baccalaureate at IES María Enríquez in Gandía and later began his studies at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. During his training, he broadened his artistic perspective thanks to an Erasmus scholarship at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he deepened his understanding of a more classical foundation of drawing and painting.
In 2011, he obtained a degree in Fine Arts and later completed the Official Master's Degree in Artistic Production (MOPA). Later, he expanded his specialization with the official course in Professional Illustration at ESAT (Superior School of Art and Technology).
His work has been a finalist twice in the National Stamp Design Contest, he has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in cities such as Oliva, Gandía, Valencia, Benissa, Llíria, Bellreguard or Florence, and his work has been published in projects such as Poesía y Collage by Francisco Brines (2019).
Since 2015, he also runs an art academy for children, a space where he combines his two great passions: painting and the creative universe of the little ones.
That same perspective is what brings each Trasto piece to life. Objects designed for childhood, created with the care and sensitivity of someone who continues to see the world with the eyes of an artist.
The artist's designs
