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Nini Andrade Silva

Founder of the Nini Andrade Silva studio

Nini Andrade Silva
In the face of all odds, we continue to celebrate beauty and all that is good. Never before have beautiful things asserted themselves so much around life principles, such as quality, ethics and well-being. Nowadays, luxury has shifted paradigm and to travel by these principles is to enter the world of premium materials, expert savoir-faire and the most advanced high-tech.
In interior design, it is important to me to create in tune with the world we live in and, if possible, to leave a legacy in harmony with these principles. I am talking, above all, about timeless design that fits into different contexts and is passed on from generation to generation.
Every new piece that we dare to create and put on the planet should be seen as something unique, a piece of art that is perpetuated and with an intrinsic value that goes beyond it alone.
We urgently need to understand that the world has no more room for the superfluous and that to create beautiful objects is, above all, to create objects with quality, both in terms of materials as well as details and techniques. If we design with a sense of responsibility, exactitude and affection, what we create will cross the dimension of luxury to become luxury itself.
The values of sustainability and the ability to return to the point of departure, as professionals capable of adding value, impose themselves as a true condition of life. That is why, in my studio, we have travelled on a long journey of reflection, study and research in order to be able to accompany our clients towards a more holistic vision of the projects and centred on an ecological awareness, which should take into account factors such as: respect for the surrounding context, adaptation to the climatic conditions of the location where the projects are created, the use of local raw materials and the correct use of available natural resources. In this equation, the aesthetic integration of the primordial principles of bioclimatic design, of synesthetic architecture and the principles of geo-environmental health should also be taken into account, avoiding the use of toxic materials and pollutants and natural/artificial radiation.
More than wishing to design without creative or financial limitations, I understand that it is important to always have an emotional bond with the projects. Only then will we be authors of projects that truly fit into the lode of luxury. It is not the financial condition that dictates luxury, it is the ethical responsibility!
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