brazilian furniture design: coletiva by mauricio arruda

brazilian furniture design: coletiva by mauricio arruda
all photos by lufe gomes

it is no secret that brazilian furniture design is gaining global attention. handcrafted work and hybrid pieces with flexible assignments, to be used in a collective way and purposely offered for users customization is the current trend. that is also how the brazilian architect and designer mauricio arruda defines his series entitled ‘coletiva’, with a very brazilian repertoire of materials – tubular iron structures, leather bands, wicker, nylon straps, wood and glass.

  clean functional vocabulary of materials used

detail

gancho samambaia – wall mounted hanger for plants

daybed

daybed

cloth stand

the coletiva collection

‘tereza’ lamps

mauricio arruda proposes a new use for the classic colorful brazilian plastic market bags. here applied over a light fold-able wire structure – originally used by fisherman as a fish farm.

‘casamba’ LED lamp

noble wood parquet, collected from building sites, are manually re-sized and finished to create the circular base on this lamp over a brass structure. the woven cane is the residue from its replacement on chairs seats and backs. to turn it into a rigid surface it is encapsulated by a see-through resin and then laser-cut into a perfect circle.