Digital Fair Maison&Objet – 9 Portuguese brands you must know
9 most famous Portuguese design brands, presented at Digital Fair Maison&Objet 2020, that definitely deserve your attention.
Unable to maintain its usual format following the Covid-19 pandemic, Maison & Objet is cancelling its September 2020 edition and instead offers a digital edition, a Digital Fair, to be discovered online from September 4 to 18, 2020.
The stands will thus be replaced by Digital Showrooms visible on the MOM platform. These virtual showrooms will be built in the spirit of the same staging of the trade fair stands. They will connect 400,000 international buyers and more than 6,000 references, including more than 300 Portuguese design brands, please take a look at some of them, that we chose for you.
LABORATÓRIO D’ESTÓRIAS
LABORATÓRIO D’ESTÓRIAS was born in June 2013: an experimental place for design that aims to draw on the stories of Portuguese popular culture to reinvent traditional objects, using them to tell new stories and (why not?) to recreate the history of the country. With a dynamic structure, adapted to the development of each piece, LABORATÓRIO D’ESTÓRIAS is surrounded by professionals from different areas, such as writing, illustration and craftsmanship, to add value to each piece.
GENCORK
GENCORK is a brand of cork solutions that explores the symbiosis between an ecological low-tech material and high-tech manufacturing processes. Creativity, technology, sustainability, and human emotions in seamless dialogue. The 100% natural and sustainable expanded cork agglomerate is transformed through computational algorithms based on generative design, with strong inspiration in biology, mathematic, and geometry. This creative system not only optimizes the thermal and acoustic properties of cork but also adds artistic value, providing multiple emotions and sensations.
FERREIRA DE SÁ RUGS
Founded in 1946, FERREIRA DE SÁ is currently the biggest company in the production of hand-made rugs, in Europe. From pure wool, to bamboo and botanical silk, only the finest materials are used for the production of a bespoke FERREIRA DE SÁ rug. At FERREIRA DE SÁ, design and craftsmanship come together to create unique pieces. From a luxury hotel lobby, to the floor of high-end stores, or even to institutional buildings and offices all across the globe, each carpet is a new story.
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