manifesto
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Mariamélia believes in manufacturing. Not as an end in itself, but as a practice that allows constant improvement of a product through know-how, through the absorption of practical knowledge, through the repetition of gestures and the pleasure of making.
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Mariamélia believes in unique and culturally significant objects. We don't wish to develop objects just as style exercises. We believe in a consequence in design processes: an improvement or a clarification: an illumination, should it be through the design, a finishing, a material, or a function.
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Mariamélia advocates for a more conscious form of consumption, which includes responsible objects: durable, natural and locally produced, with knowledge of the origin of its materials. An informed object, but also significant, in the sense that it introduces something new.
4
Mariamélia sees objects as an extension of the body and the home. An intermediary of gestures. As a way of humanizing everyday life, of civilization, of respect for the environment and for others. We believe in the truth of objects, a sense of honesty. All this only seems possible to us through artisanal or semi-industrial manufacturing work, in limited series. A scale that defines not only the quality standard we demand, but the very rhythm of production of the products. A scale and a humanized pace, which does not sacrifice any of the premises: natural materials of sustainable production and manufacture by qualified local artisans.
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Mariamélia believes in valuing the act of consumption, highlighting the quality and lifespan of objects based on the intrinsic quality of its materials and design, but also on their symbolic characteristics. We want to be able to feed a sense of dream through objects, that can rescue us from the constant cynicism of today's life, by valuing the work of those who produce sensitive things with their hands. At Mariamélia we want to take care of this sensitivity and blend it with a contemporary look, so that memory gets to be more of a construction on tradition and not only a repetition of past formulas.
