At this year’s SP Arte, ,Ovo presents two new pieces: the Dança (Dance) chair and the Iguais (Equals) table, along with a selection of highlights in the career of designers Luciana Martins and Gerson de Oliveira.

The key element in the Dança chair is its back: an irregular hexagonal structure serves as frame to a rattan weave, whose intersections and superimpositions create shapes that run from the denser areas in the center to the more open ones on the edges, subverting the orthogonal pattern of weave and warp. The set is composed by different shapes of backs, stressing the main characteristic of the series: a dance of lines and planes, where our eyes seem to never rest.

The Iguais table most prominent feature is the treatment its wood receives, adding visual lightness and physical strength that catch the eye to this large-dimension piece. Its sculpturesque character, which can be seen in other pieces by this duo of designers, is present here in all elements—feet, beams, and top dialogue and integrate in a fluid design that our eyes follow with no interruptions.

Along with these new lines, our booth will also feature a selection of pieces created through the course of the duo’s career such as the Arranjo (Arrangement) screen, the Rio (River) series of benches, and the Vela (Sail) lamps.

This selection highlights important pieces in ,Ovo’s catalog, some good examples of what design historian Adélia Borges describes:

“…production that instigates and confuses our perception, making our relationship with the object one not of consumerism (immediate utilization, often alienated), but one of fruition (which doesn’t cease after the first contact; on the contrary, which brings new nuances again and again as time passes).

“It is in this ability of offering more than function, of playing with our perception and making us think, of stirring our parameters that, in my view, ,Ovo’s artistic pulse resides, making their objects and furniture pieces something to be utilized but also to be seen and collected. To be kept—in the original sense of this verb; to preserve, to maintain, to conserve.”