Gardeco Luxury Catalogue 2019-2020

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AT E L I E R S

Studio Alva Design

F O R M S & F U N C T I O N S

ALVA is a furniture and object design studio founded in 2012 by sister and brother Susana Bastos, artist, and Marcelo Alvarenga, architect. Its projects are the result of the meeting of these two visions, the architectural and artistic. In addition to the usual rationality and functionality, its creations explore the unusual, the new features and an expressive materiality. From Minas Gerais, ALVA works - among other materials - with soap stone, a typical material from the state. It is, at the same time, a resistant and soft material, easy to be shaped into many versatile forms, either sculptural or utilitary. Another peculiarity of soap stone is its wide range of color, and because it is a natural material, each piece presents a unique color tone.

ITA collection was inspired by the latin-american indigenous people. The ornaments in brass and hard woods refer to the body accessories their people use. Besides, ITA means ‘stone’ in Tupi- Guarani language. AMORFOS series intended to explore to the extreme the plasticity of soap stone, resulting in a set of sculptures-vases that combines different ratios of masses and voids. BOLA SABAO pots were developed in partnership with designer Tatiana Queiroz, combining pure stone forms and light silhouettes of brass. AOI is another partnership with Tatiana Queiroz, and was created as a set of three vases with distinct and complementary shapes. They work together, as a set, or as individual vases, with or without their cover, as utilitary or ornamental objects.

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