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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". A Mexican landscape in the heart of London: the large Sisal Sanctum installation, created by the designer Fernando Laposse in collaboration with the citizenM hotel in Shoreditch, was designed to protect visitors, to cocoon and shield them from the urban chaos, as the Mexican-born designer explains. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin.

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Instead we long for anything that comes from abroad. Unfortunately, within Mexico there is a tendency to look down on this identity. I feel fortunate to come from Mexico because despite its very complicated colonial past we have managed to preserve our indigenous identities and traditions down to the present day. It is no coincidence that Mexico was baptised New Spain by the first conquistadors and that it became the crown jewel in the Spanish empire the place was teeming with a wealth of materials and knowledge. Mexico is a cultural hotspot and a powerhouse of materials and ingredients, which were made available to the world through the Columbian Exchange.