SÃO PAIO

BRUTAL BEAUTY

São Paio is a brutal and beautiful place. A granite headland pushed into the Atlantic, exposed to wind, salt, and long cycles of impact.

These forms come from a place of impact. Atlantic swell, wind, salt, repeated over time. The geometry is direct, surfaces are pushed in, not decorated. Nothing is softened by hand, like the headland itself.

BRUTAL BEAUTY

Percebes cling to the rocks at São Paio like scars. Hard, knuckled shells packed tight against the granite, shaped by waves that never stop testing them. Each one grows where it shouldn’t survive, feeding in the spray, holding on through impact and pull.

The geology is hard and resistant, marked by fractures, sharp breaks, and long erosion lines cut by wind and salt.

This was once an Iron Age settlement, positioned for control and survival, Life here depended on constant attention: to weather, to sound, to movement on the horizon. The landscape offers no shelter, only vantage.

ELEMENTS COLLECTION: SAO PAIO

41°16'53"N 8°43'53"W

MIA

WITH MIA BENITA

Discovering Mia was fascinating. Standing alone on stage in Lisbon, she timidly introduced herself to the large crowd, Waiting for the piano, she then glanced up. The transformation was remarkable, suddenly totally focused, full of confidence and resolve.

And then an intense performance of this emotional song of lost love, and thoughts first started emerging about the potential of this collaboration. At the end of the song, shy timidity returned. Throughout our work together, this opposition, this contrast, always present, has been a constant source of inspiration.

The process with Mia Benita begins with a voice recording, usually a cappella. The audio is analysed to extract frequency and amplitude data. This data is translated into digital curves and surfaces using custom algorithms. The resulting form is refined, then prepared for ceramic production. Each piece corresponds directly to a specific recording.

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MIA COLLECTION

We make ceramics from song and the sounds from the world around us, then transform them into sculptural form through code and craft.

From Alcobaça, Portugal, one of the worlds historic ceramic centers, we are now leading the way in a whole new creative field.

Peniche is shaped from limestone and exposure. Karst rock cut by water, cracked by salt, hollowed slowly from the inside.

The landscape feels porous, unstable, always in the process of becoming something else. Cavities, channels, sudden voids. What you see is not surface, but time made visible through erosion.

Mia Benita is a young Portuguese singer with a voice that feels direct and unguarded. Her singing carries breath, hesitation, and emotion without performance tricks. Recorded close and unfiltered, her sound becomes material—fragile, precise, and deeply human—shaping form through presence rather than force.

MIA: SOMETIMES

PENICHE

KARSTIC VOIDS

Peniche is shaped from limestone and exposure. Karst rock cut by water, cracked by salt, hollowed slowly from the inside.

The landscape feels porous, unstable, always in the process of becoming something else. Cavities, channels, sudden voids. What you see is not surface, but time made visible through erosion.

ELEMENTS COLLECTION: PENICHE

39°21'11"N 9°23'16"W

FOZ

WHERE THE DOURO MEETS THE SEA

At Foz do Douro, Porto, the great river finally meets the sea. As the waters from ocean and land mix, the line between the two is visible as turbulent motions from distant places finally join.

The pieces from this collection originate from the sound of this event, reflecting a unique place and time.

FOZ COLLECTION

MONASTERY

WITH SÓNIA TAVARES

"This represents everything that I do with my voice, with my body, with my life"

I think none of us was quite prepared for the impact. What was meant to be a brief first contact with Sónia Tavares, the extraordinary vocalist from The Gift, turned into an extraordinary day.

This is the recording, completely impromptu, the startling power of Sónia´s voice reverberating through this sacred place of habitual silence. We were in awe, and this was the starting point of our founding “Monastery Collection”

MONASTERY COLLECTION

What we do is more than design. It comes from observation and listening, understanding underlying emotions and forces and then transcribing them into 3 dimensions.

These are the resulting artefacts of events of particular significance to us. We hope they mean as much to you as they do to us.