Miguel Arruda
PORTUGAL
Meet Miguel Arruda - a powerhouse of good design, creativity and innovation based in Portugal. Miguel Arruda's design journey has been nothing short of spectacular, marked by a tireless pursuit of excellence. This dedication is clearly mirrored in Miguel Arruda's impressive haul of 4 A' Design Awards that we showcase here. Spanning across categories such as Furniture and Lighting, Miguel Arruda's work stands as a living testament to a steadfast commitment to design excellence, serving as a beacon of inspiration for designers globally. With each project, Miguel Arruda masterfully blends form and function, crafting designs that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional and timeless. This approach underscores Miguel Arruda's celebration of creativity and an unyielding quest for innovation.
View Profile Consult Now Hire NowThrough its design, a relationship was created between the rectangular and cylindrical section elements, the latter having a special ergonomic relationship with the human body. Made from natural wood, the design guarantees great mechanical resistance. All hinge and fittings are made entirely of wood, giving the piece a more artisanal character. The bench and chair are made from Pine or Sucupira wood, and for reasons of material resistance, the dowels are made exclusively of Sucupira. The pieces are foldable, without the use of any metal mechanism, allowing for easier storage and transport.
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Nuvem goes beyond the confines of traditional illumination. Slamp patented Opalflex recycled material, versatile modules can be infinitely combined creating floating landscapes. The design can be lit by multiple, bidirectional spotlights that can be positioned above the system or threaded through to illuminate from below. The easily adaptable, mutable installation brings an artistic, ethereal touch to any kind of space. The modules can be infinitely combined to create floating landscapes and transforming an architectural space running across ceilings and down the walls, creating an infinite sky.
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This agglomerate by Amorim Composits, from a composition of cork particles with polyurethane both recycled and consolidated with a binder, is launched inside a metal mold and subjected to pressure and temperature resulting in a specific physical cohesion, elasticity and effective adherence when overlapped. That suggested a set of 9 blocks of different dimensions and shapes for a sofa with one or two seats. The physical and tactile qualities and the possibility to add upholstery solutions with different colors provides diferent confort and ambience solutions, achieving different comfort levels.
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Whether ancient or contemporary, the column is a shape always present in the architectonic imagery. Inspired by it, the Cilindro produced by Levira, due to the fact that it articulates in two semi-cylinders, allows one of the halves to be constituted as a container, while the other half, by lifting to a horizontal position the plane that closes it can become a working surface. This surface has on its bottom face a telescopic tubular leg which folds through a small mechanism, allowing the horizontal positioning of the plane that constitutes the work surface.
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