A mix of techniques and styles, collabs, and sustainable raw materials are among the highlights
Submitted at Mar 17, 2025, 12:43 PM
DW! São Paulo 2025: check out launches from the design week (divulgação)
During DW! 2025, Metro Objetos, the design arm of Metro Arquitetura, presented a view into the everyday backstage of the office with three examples of the Tokyo Bench in a new scale and use. The piece was born in 2021 as a set of seats inspired by the grills of flowerbeds in Tokyo. Made of wood and carbon steel, it can be used individually or in groups. Now, an enlarged version will be seen and used by the public with the inauguration of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, part of the MASP expansion project. 
The Cultural Heritage gallery reaffirmed its vocation as a confluence space between times, promoting dialogue between historic furniture and contemporary investigations, and during DW! 2025 presented launches that expand this dialogue. The new pieces re-signify materials and tension notions of weight, form, and balance, as seen in the Monolith line, designed by architect Melina Romano. It is a three-dimensional study where wood, steel, and marble articulate a play of forces and delicacies, resulting in a triptych of buffet, coffee table, and end table. 
The collaboration between Neriage and Folio is the result of a dialogue, where fashion and furniture meet not by surface, but by structure. Rafaella Caniello's fashion brand, recognized for its use of pleats as a plastic signature, extends its language to the repertoire of Folio, a furniture brand that refines minimalism through artisanal manufacturing. In this collection, the pleating becomes a volumetric reinterpretation that dresses contemporary furniture, such as the Orion coffee table. The piece has a pleated leather base and a beige marble top. 
Exhibited at the Casa Mário de Andrade, in the Barra Funda district during DW!2025, the Delirium armchair is part of the ODE collection. The creation, signed by designers Manu Almeida and Batata Rodriguez, is a tribute to the harlequin figure of Mário de Andrade, symbol of irreverence, freedom, and artistic experimentation, revealed by the contrasts between sober and vibrant colors and natural materials and synthesized. The mix of styles and techniques results in pieces that play between tradition and modernity, elegance and relaxation, challenging conventions. Featured handmade in macramé, crochet, weaving, and braiding, also using a recycled school desk as a base. 
The designer Sandra Arruda launched the textile collection The Art Deco and the Landscapes of the Sertão, which arose from the dialogue between northeastern architecture, the Art Deco movement and ancestrality. Sandra interprets and re-signifies the aesthetics of the sertão and its iconic flat roofs, elevating these elements to new textile surfaces, where history, form, and texture meet. The textures of the fabrics evoke the surfaces of houses, reflecting either the uniformity of whitewashed facades or marked by the wear of time. This duality between permanence and transformation finds echoes in the prints on linen and cotton and in mixed jacquards, with viscose and cotton. 
During DW! 2025, Collectania invited the public to experience the circular mattress line from the Dutch brand Auping and its material library — a collection of over 1,000 sustainable materials cataloged by partner MateriaLAB Design. The aim was to promote the complete circular collection proposed by the brand, produced with reused steel and polyester, closing production cycles and combating waste. Every Auping mattress — from the steel springs to the other polyester components — is designed to be disassembled, recycled, and transformed into new products without generating waste or loss of quality in the original material.
