From Portugal with love: when home décor can express a culture

Interior design from Portugal is able to make a statement about the tradition of its country and the future of creativity.

Design and furniture are among the most interesting manifestations of the Portuguese culture. This ancient European state, who played a great role in all eras of history, is reevaluating its past and rediscovering its routes. This country is witnessing a new spring, with creativity and innovation blooming all around: Portuguese designers are starting to gain an important voice in the international community, becoming one of the most promising protagonists of the home décor world. The strength of the creative minds from Portugal lies in a simple concept: innovate the present, looking towards the future, while treasuring the traditions of the past. This is the only way to success, the only way to create something that will last in time, whose beauty will not fade away as fashion and trends change.

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Rediscover the roots, while being conscious

Retracing the steps of a nation’s history means getting back to the ancient traditions, lifestyles, and the way people used to live in the old days. The way life transformed over the years in the same land, is a great source of inspiration, that can also help us trying to understand the future changes that we will face. Portugal is a generous motherland, which has always provided its people with abundant natural resources raw materials, such as cork and pine wood. Contemporary companies are rediscovering the different use of these materials, utilizing them to create furniture. Taking advantage of natural resources is a sign of environmental consciousness, and it shows how this country is engaged the pursuit of an eco-friendly furniture production. Trinta Por Uma Linha is one of the brands from Portugal who undertook to use natural resources in a sustainable way.

Trinta Por Uma Linha aims to tell, through each and every one of its pieces, a little bit about the Portuguese culture. This way, the company hopes to export not only their furniture all over the world, but also a glimpse of the history and soul of this great country and its inhabitants. The Trinta Por Uma Linha designers combine uniqueness and innovation, with 100% Portuguese materials, such as cork, pine, or the typical Burel Portuguese fabric. The main concept that leads their designs is to make form and style follow function, in harmonic pieces of furniture that can decorate beautifully and make like easier and more practical. This emerging brand from Portugal has already proved its value, and there is no doubt it will continue to surprise and amaze us in the future years.

 

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A new Modernism

Portugal is a land with a great craftsmanship tradition: for centuries artisans have gained experience and skills in manufacturing wooden pieces of astonishing beauty. Praddy is a brand that tried to collect all the wisdom from Portugal’s past and put it into a successful furniture company. Treasuring this ancient tradition and combing it with some retro influences, they were able to come up with a very personal style, that combines the craftsmanship abilities with a modernist taste.

And what does the 20th century modernist movement have in common with a furniture brand from Portugal? The rational approach to design, the meticulous analysis of the function of every object, the will to innovate fearlessly. Sustained by a great passion and a long experience, Praddy wants to export the charm and elegance of its handcrafted furniture from Portugal to the world, just as much as Trinta Por Uma Linha. The constant pursuit for innovation and perfection makes Praddy’s artisans always greed to renovate their ideas, always keeping an eye on the old-times traditions. Inheriting the passion and know-how of many past generations, and believe in the creativity of those who are yet to come, Praddy aims to extend and enhance this culture to worldwide recognition.

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The way to the future

A great country values its traditions, but has to use all of its energies to look towards the future with enthusiasm and innovation spirit. After all, Portugal is where the first explorers of the New World started their journey, beginning a great adventure that leaded to the discovery of the lands that opened the way to a new future for the old continent. That is where the Byfly’s philosophy comes from. This company’s designers are brave, bold and fearless, just like the crew that accompanied Christopher Columbus in his journey. Byfly’s great experience allow the company to create revolutionary designs that always set trends and lead tendencies, with the skills that only tradition can provide.

Dreamy and highly symbolic, décor pieces by Byfly seem to be a part of a world faraway, an oneiric parallel universe. Experimentation is the key word for this Portuguese brand. Porcelain is carefully shaped with great ability in sinuous lines, combining with different metallic materials, creating furniture and ornaments of all kinds and functions. Byfly will colonize your interiors with innovation, with novelty: in a word, with the future. 

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Lazying with style

We have talked about the important of history, tradition and innovation in design, but there is something we are missing. One of the brands from Portugal has one goal and one goal only: make yourself comfortable. Ottiu is a company that reinterprets of mid-century style into unique upholstery pieces with a superb designs. The glamorous collection of furniture wants to provide you with pieces that are stylish, and elegant, but above all, comfortable. The very name of the brand is inspired by the Latin word “otium”, which means laziness, idleness: in other words, the time that you get to dedicate just to yourself, relaxing and enjoying your leisure hours.

Comfort is fundamental, but so is glamour. Furniture by Ottiu is inspired by the golden age of Hollywood: grandiose, sophisticated and sensual at the same time. The luxurious velvets that cover the upholstery sofas, the sinuous lines of the armchairs, will make you feel like you are a movie star on the set on a black and white movie. The Portuguese tradition still live on in these creations, through the astonishing craftsmanship abilities of Ottiu’s designers.

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