A traditional house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, designed by local interior designer Gustavo Neves. Ancestors, millennial memories inscribed in the subconscious of peoples, their customs, traditions and knowledge are features reproduced in history and expressed in material form as cultural deposits and edges. Culture permeates and organises experience as the guardian and maintainer of the existence and way of life of the world in different structures of space and time. This fundamental creativity maintains uniqueness and diversity, shapes human action in the world, reflects human development and freedom, and makes culture one of the pillars of sustainable development.
Here Gustavo Neves think of the culture that emerges from traditional wisdom, knowledge of diversity, technologies and the sustainable use of resources, made possible by creative power. The ancient spirit of Sumé, Zumé or Tumé Arandú, evoked in the name of space, a mythological being of the Tupi people, to whom is attributed the transmission of the first techniques of the use of fire, agriculture and social organization to those who walked the planet.
- Interiors: Gustavo Neves
- Photos: Marco Antonio
- Words: Qianqian
