OUR DESIGNERS
A globally recognised and award-winning team of designers are responsible for creating more than thousand unique designs exclusively for Surface Ideas.
Alfredo Barbosa de Oliveira, Antonio Ferreira Jr., Rodrigo Ohtake, Zanini de Zanine, LATTOG Studio, Giorgio Bonaguro, Alessandra Delgado and Pedro Lázarohave developed timeless and strikingly unique designs.
Alfredo B. de Oliveira
Passionate about visual arts, he abandoned his career in the financial area to become a textile designer. Alfredo created a universe that was rich in shapes, colors and textures, starting on paper with brushstrokes of gouache, where he unleashed the exuberant geometric and floral patterns that defined his career. Most of the models in our portfolio were created by him.
Antonio Ferreira Jr.
A renowned architect, he began to flirt with visual arts influenced by Alfredo Barbosa de Oliveira, his mentor, and started to study colors and paint acrylic on canvas. The graphic elements of the wall tapestries and colored geometric models that make up the retro-looking Aquarius collection were born from Antonio’s artistic work: the paintings with references to concrete art, neo-concrete art, and constructivism.
Rodrigo Ohtake
Add to the Italian soul, the pragmatism of an industrial design background and the passion for Brazilianness. The result is creations full of charm, history and purpose signed by Giorgio. He has created furniture, lamps, objects and packaging, paying tribute to Carlo Scarpa, an Italian architect and designer influenced by the culture, materials and landscapes of Venice, in his first line of rugs developed for Punto e Filo that has an extra clean look.
Zanini de Zanine
Starred name of the brazilian design, he grew up in his father’s studio, Zanine Caldas, and lived with notorious figures of Modernism. He has exhibited in important museums and galleries worldwide. The geometric shapes of carpets and tapestries are the inspiration for his rugs collection.
LATTOOG Studio
The symbols of São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro famous sidewalks inspired Leonardo LatTavo And Pedro Moog to design a new print. They created the series of rugs entitled Paulioca. The Idea, based on bringing together urban icons from São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, gave life to new graphic designs in different colors, such as The Copacabana Sunset. After all, in their projects, poetry and intuition are in tune with innovation and authenticity.
Giorgio Bonaguro
Add to the Italian soul, the pragmatism of an industrial design background and the passion for Brazilianness. The result is creations full of charm, history and purpose signed by Giorgio. He has created furniture, lamps, objects and packaging, paying tribute to Carlo Scarpa, an Italian architect and designer influenced by the culture, materials and landscapes of Venice, in his first line of rugs developed for Punto e Filo that has an extra clean look.
Alessandra Delgado
For over 20 years Alessandra Delgado engages in furniture design with exquisite finishing. Known especially for her works with wood, this is her first time signing a rug collection.
Pedro Lázaro
Born in Pedro Leopoldo, Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, architect and urban planner Pedro Lázaro carried out his first project in 1990 – the Vitória e Marcelo residence, in Pedro Leopoldo. Since then, the professional has accumulated diverse experiences developing several projects for fashion shows and fashion stores, scenography for launch events in the automobile industry, houses, apartments and telecommunications product stores throughout Brazil.
