2021 / / Professional

Duality

• Company
  Vista Alegre, Portugal
• Lead Designer
  VA Studio
• Design Team
  VA Studio
• Client
  Vista Alegre
• Project Link
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This collection portrays the endless dispute between reason and emotion, calm and turbulence, sobriety and excess. White classic drawings predominate on the main faces of the pieces, subtly arranged in a delicate harmony. On the back side, lush flowers search invade the calm and destabilize the regularity, in a swirl of exacerbated colors and motifs full of romanticism.
For this development, we dive into the past of Vista Alegre through is drawings from the end of the century XIX, reworking them in a contemporary language. The result is a collection full of dream, surprising and passionate.

Bio
Founded in 1824, the Vista Alegre Porcelain Factory was the first industrial unit dedicated to producing porcelain in Portugal.
The factory started by producing glassware and soapstone pottery, since the composition of porcelain clay was still unknown. In 1880, Vista Alegre ceased its glassware production to focus exclusively on porcelain.
Nowadays, Vista Alegre is more than an industrial unit. It is also part of the Portuguese heritage, boasting buildings of undeniable architectural interest, and a repository of social and artistic memories essential to the building of a Portuguese identity.