Studio Vanessa Barragão is a design studio focusing on the artisanal techniques and wasted yarns from the industry to produce textiles and products for interiors.
Growing up in the seaside, her connection to the ocean is the inspiration for her artworks. Vanessa Barragão’s work is characterized by her captivating environments of coral reefs, cleverly combining craft and recycled materials into unique and luxurious sculptural carpets and tapestries for floors and walls.
Vanessa was born in Albufeira, in the south of Portugal. Her studio was founded in 2014 when she attended a Master degree at the Lisbon University in fashion and textiles design. There she developed her first wool yarn collection and tapestries through an ecological artisanal process. Currently, she is based in Porto, the Northern region of Portugal where the nation’s textile industry core is located, and divides her time between collaborating as a textile designer for an artisanal rugs factory and running her studio.
Kodai Iwamoto (born in Kagoshima, Japan) starts his study of product design at Kobe Design University in Japan. While a bachelor's degree there, he joined a DESIGN SOIL, which is an educational design project by teaching staff and students. Through the project, he had participated in several international design fairs such as Milan Design Week.
After the study in Kobe, he then moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he lived for 2 years to gain practical skills at master course in ECAL( École cantonale d'art de Lausanne ).
After life in Lausanne, he moved his base to Tokyo and has been actively working with some furniture brands both in Japan and abroad.