Designer Interview
Pausa was just a successful school work in my second year at Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa. In the Holidays after, I decided to polish the drawings as I was planning to make my own production – I needed to come up with a place to produce, a starting budget, a channel to market it…
Meanwhile, during that same summer, I was with my uncle, an Architect, he asked how school was going, as usual. I told him about the bench I had drawn, showed him photos of the prototype I had made in the school’s workshop. He enjoyed and shared with me that he was working on making a furniture line.
I was very happy to contribute to Bota as it’s a family and friends kind of business, you’re dealing with people you already knew, that you get along with.
Pausa is just a simple three-legged woodnen bench, with soft seat. Lets you sit and stand easely as your legs can always reach the floor – like a bicicle seat.
I was happily influenced by what I find a clean contemporany design with hints of positive mooded colours: naked wood and a vivid orange seat was the first prototype – a first try, contrasting with what one could call my “aesthetic background language”, so to speak, as before University I was more into the Graphic Design in that Gothic-Industrial scene. Nonetheless the language change it gave me great pleasure drawing and building the prototype.
It was quite a step for me and so, I hold this little high bench – affeciously called Queijo Alto de Três Patas (Three Legged High Cheese) uppon work delivery but latter changed to better fit it’s initial concept – as a happy experience of growing (with all enherent bits of frustration and anger in between as any other process).
Thank you for reading, I hope Pausa influences you positively as it has influenced me too :
