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 the launches of the design week (divulgação)
During DW! 2025, Metro Objetos, the design arm of Metro Arquitetura, offered a look at the behind-the-scenes of the office’s daily life with three examples of the Tokyo Bench in a new scale and usage. The piece was born in 2021 as a set of seats inspired by the railings of flowerbeds in Tokyo. Made of wood and carbon steel, it can be used individually or in groups. Now, an expanded 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 space for the confluence of times, promoting dialogue between historical furniture and contemporary investigations, and during DW! 2025 presented launches that expand this dialogue. The new pieces reinterpret materials and challenge 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 side table. 
The collaboration between Neriage and Folio is the result of a dialogue, where fashion and furniture meet not by the surface but by the structure. The fashion brand by Rafaella Caniello, recognized for the use of pleating as a plastic signature, extends its language to the Folio repertoire, a furniture brand that refines minimalism through artisanal manufacturing. In this collection, pleating becomes a volumetric reinterpretation that dresses contemporary furniture, exemplified by the Orion coffee table. The piece has a pleated leather base and a beige marble top. 
Displayed at 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, a symbol of irreverence, freedom, and artistic experimentation, revealed by the contrasts between sober and vibrant colors and natural materials and sinthetics. The mix of styles and techniques results in pieces that play between tradition and modernity, elegance and informality, challenging conventions. Featured handcrafted in macramé, crochet, weaving, and braiding, additionally using recycled materials from an old school wallet as a base. 
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 ancestry. Sandra interprets and reinterprets the aesthetics of the sertão and its iconic platibandas, elevating these elements to new textile surfaces, where history, form, and texture meet. The textures of the fabrics evoke the surfaces of houses, sometimes reflecting the uniformity of lime-washed facades, at other times marked by the wear of time. This duality between permanence and transformation finds resonance in 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 of the Dutch brand Auping and its materials library — a collection with more than 1,000 sustainable materials cataloged by the partner MateriaLAB Design. The idea was to promote the complete circular collection proposed by the brand, produced with repurposed 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 losing the quality of the original material.
