Evangelia Ducoin

A Life Shaped by Making

Evangelia Ducoin grew up in a small town in the interior of Argentina, where her best memories are made of long summers, her grandfather’s garden, and a wisteria that exploded into bloom each spring. She watched her mother embroider ice skating costumes with sequins and her grandmother lay fresh pasta out to dry on the kitchen table. She didn’t know it then, but she was already learning to pay attention – to texture, to process, to the particular beauty of things made slowly by hand.

The Craft That Caught Her

She went on to study graphic design in Córdoba. Colour and its symbolism, letterforms, patterns: tools for making meaning visible. But something was still missing. A chance encounter with craft workshops on Mallorca – blown glass, weaving, ceramics, and jewellery – changed that. Jewellery, she says, was the one that caught her. She learned from master goldsmiths on the island, generous teachers who shared their knowledge freely, and has been deepening her practice ever since.

A Studio in Pórtol

Today, Evangelia lives and works in Pórtol, where she and her partner have built Ducoin Studio: a shared creative space for furniture, objects, and jewellery made with organic materials and unhurried intention.

Her work is shaped by impermanence – by petals, fragments, and forms that reach toward something sacred or barely remembered. Her references are the creative pairs she admires: Les Lalannes, the Eames, Eileen Gray. And poetry, which she says sends her imagination wandering into places that can’t quite be named. Every colour, shape, and word carries meaning. Mallorca, she says, was a way of coming home to something she had almost forgotten.