The exhibition, until November 22 at By Kamy and Idália Design, is curated by Joice Joppert Leal, board member of Aladi (Latin American Association of Design Innovation) and CEO of Objeto Brasil, an organization she founded in 1996, active in the promotion of Brazilian design.

Design Oriundi 2020 collects the work of over twenty renowned Brazilian designers including Guto Requena, Nao Yuasa, Guilherme Wentz, Pedro Petry, Miúda Furniture and artists such as Feira Rosenbaum and Marco 500. Designers who base their own expression on the multiplicity of cultural influences in they grew up on. The aim of the initiative is in fact to show the origins of Brazilian design, whose starting point are, in fact, the migratory flows and to highlight the influence of Italians, Arabs, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Jews and other peoples. in the formation of the local material culture. “All the designers involved”, Joppert Leal points out, “bring the power of their descendants into their work”.