On his WhatsApp he has a portrait of his friend Javi Royo, which is the maximum refinement to which he himself aspires as a designer: a circle and a cigar. And yes, the bald and brilliant –in every sense– head of Mario Eskenazi is usually accentuated by a cigarette that he puffs on in his studio in the Gothic Quarter while he reviews –Banc Sabadell, TMB, Mossos d'Esquadra...– some of his omnipresent projects.