Take everyday materials such as cardboard, rope, cloth, wood scraps, plastic tubes and aluminium wire, much of it scrap and reshape it into exuberant furniture that reflects the colour, heat, vibrancy, passion and rhythm of Brazil. This was how Humberto Campana (born 1953) and his brother Fernando (born 1961) started designing their unique style of […]
Appropriately, in a building which used to be the headquarters of the P&O Oriental Steam Navigation Company near Trafalgar Square, with its the mahogany-panelled shipping hall which is now part of the Brazilian Embassy, the best of contemporary Brazilian furniture design is on display during the London Design Festival, complimenting the old mahogany with new […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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