Online atelier · Funchal, Madeira
Furniture that belongs a century from now.
Manifesto
Our ambition is not to create fashionable objects. Our ambition is to create timeless objects.
The question
How can natural heritage materials and contemporary construction systems communicate organically with one another? Very little research has explored a truly organic connection between the two.
The answer
The innovation is not the wood. The innovation is not the metal. The innovation is the connection between them — Bauhaus discipline meeting the warmth of solid timber.
Selected work
Pieces & studies, made one at a time.
The detail that makes the piece
Joinery, left in the open.
A signature of the studio — the butterfly joint, emenda borboleta — where structure and ornament become one gesture. Alongside it, the dado and half-lap carry the work.
Butterfly
Locks a natural split in place so it cannot travel — beauty and strength in a single, deliberate mark.
Dado
A channel cut clean across the grain to seat a panel or shelf — quiet, strong, free of visible fixings.
Half-lap
Two members each notched halfway to overlap and sit flush, sharing the load where they cross.
Every joint is laid out, cut, and fitted by hand — no two identical. Woods: two African mahoganies · Cryptomeria & Warmax cedar · reclaimed acacia, oak, chestnut & pine.
The maker
Made by hand in Funchal, by Francisco.
Francisco has worked with wood since he was fifteen — roughly fifteen years alongside skilled carpenters and fine woodworkers, learning the capacities of the material and the engineering that refines them.
The studio is not anonymous. He wants to be an accessible presence: easy to reach, open to new projects and ideas — and to let the work and the research speak.
— Francisco