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Design is in details ! Here some pics by @claudiazalla about ArchiThoughts-ArchiTouch, the exhibition I’ve curated this past MDW26 for @arpaforinteriors In the images Bodega by @parasiteparasite and Frammento#due by @storagemilano A project in collaboration with @giuul and @cora_pr_ #designcurator
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Design is in details ! Here some pics by @claudiazalla about ArchiThoughts-ArchiTouch, the exhibition I’ve curated this past MDW26 for @arpaforinteriors In the images Open Volume by @_redduo_ @redduo_studio and Lauze by @zimmer_std A project in collaboration with @giuul and @cora_pr_ #designcurator
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For the corridor leading to the toilets of the LUZZI Restaurant at @andazlisbon designed by @patricia_urquiola I installed some handmade artwork by @anthoophila chosen together with @giuul that assisted me in this art advisory commission. The Masks is an installation that reflects on the layers we build to protect ourselves, hide, or reinvent who we are.Each mask is handmade and intentionally fragmented, revealing traces of both concealment and exposure. The piece invites viewers to confront the duality between authenticity and performance. The installation creates an intimate, almost ritual-like atmosphere. It becomes a space to contemplate identity as something fluid, fragile, and constantly evolving. The masks Title: Qumain Year: 2023 Materials: Mixed media (polypropylene rope, hemp fibers, silicone) Title: Madame Butterfly Year: 2023 Materials: Mixed media (polypropylene rope, hemp fibers, silicone) Title: Fern Year: 2024 Materials: Mixed media (polypropylene rope, hemp fibers, silicone) Bio Soraya (Anthoophila) is an Ibiza-based artist whose work explores identity, memory, and emotional landscapes through symbolic and organic forms. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, and installation, often drawing from nature and personal mythology. Her recent work focuses on the intersection between transformation and vulnerability. She has participated in exhibitions and artistic projects across the Balearic Islands. #artadvisor #designcurator
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On the rooftop of the newly opened @andazlisbon by @patricia_urquiola is the LUZZI restaurant @luzzilisbon where as art advisor, assisted by @giuul, I’ve asked the trio @ves.tres formed by @num.para @madalenajpequito @mariadebritomatias to conceive a site specific murals inspired by the city of Lisbon In the mural Birds Watching, Lisbon is observed through the watchful eyes of crows. These birds, known for their memory, become guardians of the city, carrying with them the streets, rooftops, and stories of the places they have visited. Birds Watching (2026) mixed media BIO VÊS.TRÊS is a collective project composed of artists Ana Malta, Madalena Pequito, and Maria de Brito Matias. The collaboration began in 2018, after they finished their studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. The desire to continue working closely as colleagues led to the creation of joint works where pictorial harmony creates a game of seeing and recognizing. The question that remains will always be: “Do you see three?” #artadvisor #designcurator 📸 @francisconogueira
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(…) Textile art plays a prominent role within the selection, from the tapestry by Mariana Rola Pereira, made by hand with the traditional Arraiolos stitch technique, to the textile screen prints by Luísa Ramires that welcome guests at the reception with an invitation to embrace a slower pace. Textile also reappears in the suites in the form of the small tapestries by Filipa Won/deFIO, the large handmade modern triptych by Carolina Vaz for the lift lobby, and the woven series by Rosarinho Andrade, inspired by Lisbon’s architecture and its traditional façades of coloured azulejos. A strong attention to materiality also emerges in the work of Jimmy Millan, a Spanish artist who combines painting and collage, as well as in the layered textile compositions created by Farinha Rosa for the suites and hallways.This tactile quality continues in Raquel Belli’s photographic weavings, through which she revisits the past and lends new meaning to archival images, and in Anthoophila’s masks made from climbing rope, which reinterpret traditional weaving techniques. Collage can also be evoked in Lorenzo Vitturi’s photographic work in the restaurant, which captures a totemic sculpture assembled from disparate elements and subsequently transformed, in keeping with his distinctive artistic practice. Colour and layering likewise define the works installed along the first-floor corridor, where the large canvases by Francesca Coutinho, the paintings on paper by Rita Ferreira and the geometric risograph prints by Andreyy Levy, Levö, are deliberately presented in overlapping arrangements. (…) @andazlisbon @patricia_urquiola 📸 @francisconogueira tks @giuul
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Definitely one of my favorite part of the recently opened @andazlisbon by @patricia_urquiola I’ve been working on as art advisor assisted by @giuul : how to transform a lift lobby in a place where to stay to work or to chat no matters. For this area I’ve commissioned this incredible textile triptych to @carolinavaz.studio. This triptych, created in 2025 for the Andaz Hotel project, is inspired by the work “A Máquina / The Machine”, started by the artist in 2022 and only completed one year later. That intuitive and meticulous artwork served as the foundation for the triptych, extending its visual language on a larger scale. The triptych immerses the viewer in a three-dimensional, geometric space, where forms in perspective and diagonal planes evoke mechanical engineering, as if inside a machine, yet with a spontaneous approach. The color palette (deep blues, red, with touches of orange, yellow, and green) gives the geometric planes a playful and almost hypnotic effect. Though conceived “without rules,” the composition follows a geometry of parallel planes and carefully considered perspective games. A Grande Máquina // The Big Machine 2025 Tryptich 115 x 322 cm Technique: punch needle handmade embroidery Materials: cotton fabric base; cotton threads Artwork 1/3 - 115 x 105 cm Artwork 2/3 - 115 x 112 cm Artwork 3/3 - 115 x 105 cm BIO Carolina Vaz (1989, Lisbon) grew up in an artistic environment that encouraged experimentation with manual work, materials, textures, and color. She studied Visual Arts, holds a Master’s in Cultural Management, and has worked organizing cultural and artistic events. Over time and inspired by the artistic field, her desire to create with her hands led her to textile arts, beginning as a self-taught macramé artist. She later expanded her practice through tapestry and embroidery, developing an abstract visual language with a modern approach. A color enthusiast, Carolina transforms embroidery into contemporary art through intuitive and organic creative processes. #artadvisor #designcurator
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While approching the bar of the new @andazlisbon by @patricia_urquiola I ve been working in as art advisor together with @giuul I’ve asked to Beatrice Bonafini to surprise us with a dypthic: Bea Bonafini Nubia and The Floating One The project consists of two paintings created in finely engraved gouache on cork, designed in “clover leaf” shapes that reference ancient symbolism and Portugal’s cultural heritage. The works draw on Portuguese and Mediterranean myths, depicting sea-related figures such as dolphin and whale protectresses, tritons, and nereids, while incorporating poetic imagery from Luís de Camões. The compositions also reference Paleolithic and Greek depictions of sea creatures, blending historical and mythological elements. Visually, the paintings resemble mosaics or inlays, with intricate, tessellated patterns that highlight the relationship between myth and nature. The use of cork not only evokes Portugal’s status as a leading cork producer but also symbolizes the country’s connection to both land and sea, linking myth with cultural and natural landscapes. Nubia and The Floating One 2024 Gouache on cork mounted on wood BIO. Bea Bonafini is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Barcelona, tracing the currents between past and present through painting, tapestry, ceramics, and drawing. Rooted in Mediterranean archaeology and mythology, she delves into origin stories and ancient metamorphoses, seeking the hidden threads that connect human experience across time. Through layering and reconfiguration, she revives these narratives, allowing them to emerge in contemporary forms that are both intimate and monumental. In these transient sanctuaries, histories, mythologies, and identities converge, fracture, and metamorphose—offering spaces where the past resonates, the present expands, and new stories are born. #artadvisor #designcurator 📸 @francisconogueira
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As art advisor for the new @andazlisbon by @patricia_urquiola, together with @giuul, I selected for the reception area the portugues artist Luisa Ramires for a site specific installation @ramireszizi The series “Rhythm” speaks about places and their time. These are three landscapes, created through the repetition of “nature glitches”. By using a drawing of a stone as a matrix, the artist cuts different parts of the image to recreate by hand the glitch effect, speaking about the intersection between the digital and the real landscape. Through the lens of our fast-paced technological society, the artist looks at the geologic passivity of place. Rhythm - half note, quarter note, eighth note Screen printing monotype with pigment based ink on cotton fabric 140 x 100 cm 2025 BIO Luísa Ramires works in Lisbon, Portugal. Has exhibited her work at the National Museum Machado de Castro, National Museum of Contemporary Art, amongst other museums. The artist was a finalist in several competitions receiving the prize of Painting at the D. Fernando II award. She is present in several publications, such as Portuguese Emerging Artists, Emerge (2024). Ramires regularly participates in artistic residencies, among which are “Biennale du Lin de Portneuf” in Quebec with BILP and Contextile Bienal (2023), and Kunstraum LLC in New York (2024). #artadvisor #designcurator
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In the common areas of @andazlisbon by @patricia_urquiola I selected @franciscacoutinho.art for this site specific dypthic: “The Garden of Hades I and II” explore Hades, the god who rules the world of the dead in Greek mythology, a place of transformtion, memory, and reflection. The works depict a garden in the world of the dead, where intuition and imagination meet. Thought exture, material, and form, I seek to evoke emotional and sensory experiences. The garden of Hades I and II, 100 cm x 125 cm, 2025 Mixed media on canvas BIO Francisca Coutinho (1993, Lisbon) is a visual artist who studied Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Her practice blends painting, collage, paper and plaster, giving shape to intuitive and often unconscious forms. Working through colour, texture and composition, she transforms drawing studies into material narratives rooted in personal stories and emotional landscapes. Her work adopts a tactile and introspective approach thatinvites immersion in light, memory and sensorial experience.She currently lives and works in Lisbon. But as well in the lobby also the beautiful photo by @alainrichard.photography GALICIA #4 is part of the Ocean series, where water becomes a living substance and a mirror of the world. On this Atlantic shore, movement unfolds endlessly, shifting between gentleness and force. Alain Richard explores the subtle balance between organic detail and vast maritime space. GALICIA #4 Ocean series , 2019. 150cm x 113cm - 59 x 44,5 Inch Fin art print on dibond , framed in Walnut + Museum Glass Edition 3/6 + 2AP BIO Alain Richard (b. 1968) is a Franco-Belgian photographer focused on large-format, meditative landscapes. Coming from the fashion world, he lived and worked between Paris and New York before transitioning into fine art. Founder of Studio 202 in Brussels, his work has appeared in major publications including Vogue, W and ELLE. Since 2014, he explores sea, sky and mineral matter through minimal compositions revealing depth, texture and silence. Exhibited internationally, his practice reflects a contemplative bond with nature and supports environmental preservation. #artadvisor
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Brand new opening for Hyatt with the new Andaz right in the city center of Lisbon @andazlisbon a interior design architecture project by @patricia_urquiola I had the change to work on as art advisor in the past two years together with @giuul as usual. “The selection of the artworks, curated by the art advisor Federica Sala, reflects the attention of Andaz and Studio Patricia Urquiola to local culture both in terms of aesthetic influences and in the use of materials and colour palettes. The curatorial approach focused primarily on a group of Portuguese artists, many of them emerging although intentionally not exclusively so, who could act as interpreters of contemporary Portuguese culture. Alongside them, there is a selection of international artists, either current or former residents of Portugal, as well as artists connected through their shared use of materials. This is the case of the Italian artist Bea Bonafini, whose paintings, made on sculptural forms of inlaid cork, reference the myths of sea protecting deities drawn from the poetry of Luís de Camões. A site-specific work, like most of the works present, both in the common areas and in the bedrooms, creates a temporal dialogue between the history of the country and its contemporary reinterpretation. This is exemplified by the landscape by Sofia Cruz, known as KRUS, which welcomes visitors along the steps of the grand monumental staircase at the hotel entrance. Here, almost like contemporary guardians of the landscape, a selection of vintage olive oil tins is transformed through the artist’s lines and vibrant colours. (….)” #artadvisor #designcurator 📸 @francisconogueira just for the first one of two
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This past june opened my latest project as art advisor selecting artists and commissioning site specific artworks for the brand new Andaz in Lisbon @andazlisbon designed by beloved @patricia_urquiola in the pic by @francisconogueira the site specific installation commissione to Sofia Crus aka KRUS @kr.us “Vessels of Memory” transforms old Portuguese olive oil vases into a landscape of memory and color. Each vase, weathered by time, is elevated on pillars of varying heights, creating a dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression. With vibrant colors, abstract shapes, and dynamic lines, the installation invites viewers to reflect on the passage of time, cultural heritage, and the connection between past and present, breathing new life into these historic objects. Vessels of Memory, 2025 Acrylic painting on metallic vases Plaster and acrylic painting on MDF podiums Sofia Cruz (KRUS), born in Lisbon in 1989, studied Product Design. Her work explores the boundary between design and visual arts, marked by a strong authorial voice. She transforms color into sensation, applying painting to diverse materials and surfaces to create immersive environments. Sofia collects moments and translates them into non-figurative, unique expressions, reflecting a personal and lived artistic cosmos. All pieces are handmade in her Sintra studio. Thank to Giulia Castaldini @giuul that as usual worked with me on this project #artadvisor #designcurator
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