Jacob Varela
Takasago
Born in Barcelona in 1986 and raised in Luxembourg, Jacob Varela wanted as a child to be an inventor so that he could take things apart and understand them. He studied chemistry, completed an internship in a chromatography and organic chemistry laboratory in Nice, then enrolled at ISIPCA to do the same with molecules. He graduated in 2012 and joined Takasago, spending eighteen months developing his craft alongside Francis Kurkdjian at the creation centre on rue Torricelli, followed by three years in the Shanghai office. He speaks four European languages and Mandarin, and draws on that cultural range in his work with raw materials.
