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Hell’s Kitchen Bench is a large-scale piece of furniture that creates a symbiotic relationship between the natural and sustainable raw-materials that comprise it, stone and wood. The singularity of this conjugation is evidenced not only in the proficiency of the lines of the bench itself, but also in the contrast of the white Branco Vigária marble […]

Born in Matosinhos in 1933, Álvaro Siza graduated in architecture from the University of Porto in 1955. His first project was completed in 1954, and since then he has worked uninterruptedly for six decades. His career has been internationally recognized with several prizes, including the Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Award in 1988, the […]

Invited by the curatorial direction of the 14th edition of the Design Miami/Basel fair, experimentadesign/Lisbon Gallery presented Common Sense in Basel between the 11th and 16th of June, 2019. This exhibition marked the first time Portugal was represented within the central pavilion of Design Miami/Basel, which takes place during Art Basel, the most important art […]

Fontaine is a water feature conceived for public or domestic use. Its modular construction allows for the configuration of fountains of different sizes, which bring the notion of water to indoor or outdoor environments. It is an artificial stream playing with sound and movement, just as it is a playground for children, where twigs and […]

Ronan Bouroullec (b.1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (b.1976) have been working together for about twenty years now. Their collaboration is a permanent dialogue nourished by their distinct personalities and a shared notion of diligence with the intention to reach more balance and fineness. Their work has covered many fields, ranging from the design of small objects […]

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The Vitra Campus, in Weil Am Rhein, in Germany, has since June 13, another permanent piece, produced in Portugal and now installed in its gardens.

The Alpinina bowl has been specifically designed to make it seem as if it is floating over the surface it is placed on, despite the intrinsic weight of the stone. The elevated and recessed base creates a space that is ideal for lifting the bowl with bare hands. It is a simple piece, meant to […]

Barbowls is a functional reinterpretation of barbells, assembled with eight cups of tea and four small glasses of porcelain filled with lead spheres used in hunting cartridges to get at least 1.5kg of weight. Barbowls is part of CHINAWARE collection based on a critical design approach, developed without studio or translator and made with traditional […]

Production flaws are marked with felt markers at Jingdezhen small porcelain factories, in China. Dragon Marker porcelain pieces are coloured with a non-firing overglaze painting technique developed with ordinary red felt markers bought in local streets. It results in an unexpected craquelure texture and in a surprising bright red tone, very difficult to produce by […]