projects

Work selection exhibit in diferent categories.

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"(...) to project in Cork is necessary to understand their plastic characteristics and technological limitations. But this methodological approach is not new and seems to be the most genuine and best that represents a new "culture of cork." In Portugal a pioneering example is the project "Sela" from designer Paulo Parra, with an obvious artistic quality and structural simplicity, explores the sensory and affective aspects of cork, either by its natural smoothness of the surface or its functional type of rocking chair that can connote with the contemplative nature of the Alentejo countryside."

Marco Sousa Santos, “O Desafio da Matéria”,

Blue Design nº 5, 2008.

"From here we can speak of a single pedal. A pedal designed for Singer machines. Made in one piece, as a bar folded in half - unlike traditional which consists of two shells as a bivalve. The simplicity of its lines allows, on one hand, that the time of factory production drops to a third of the usual - with what that implies in terms of reducing costs and work for the workers.

All these issues equate in his head. For days. To solve the problem that is offered - or self-imposed. "Ideas of concepts, models, typologies of objects that arise as an illustration of reasoning..."

Vanessa Rato, Tráfego: Antologia Critica da Nova Visualidade Portuguesa, “Paulo Parra”, Coordenação Alexandre Melo, Porto 2001.

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