DUDA CARVALHO

CONCEPT

‘I utilize local social-economic and cultural values on the concept of my work. The alternative processes and techniques of solving problems, on a pragmatic basis, aiming only at functionality to the detriment of form, deceive the privation of economic and technological resources. Thus, the so-called Brazilian “find-a-way”,  as an idiosyncratic feature,  gives place to the empirical making, immediate need and improvisation that implicate in presupposition to conceiving a unique and original aesthetics.’

BIOGRAPHY

Duda Carvalho was born on March 17, 1968 in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. His father was a furniture maker and his mother was an upholsterer, both proprietors of a small furniture industry in town. He spent part of his childhood watching his parents designing and producing chairs, tables, beds and bookcases. On second grade he studied Architecture Drawing at a local Polytechnic School. Soon afterwards he began to work for several interior stores designing furniture and planning spaces for a while. During that time he earned some practice and expertise. A couple of years later he chose to graduate in Languages, another passion of his. He partially quit his prior occupation to dedicate himself to teaching languages. Yet he continued doing furniture and product design courses, sketching and designing objects as a hobby. At that time he also entered unpretentiously some important National Home Design Prizes Contests, Museu da Casa Brasileira and A Casa Museu do Objeto Brasileiro. After a trip to Europe for studying purposes, Duda came back determined to engage as a professional designer and not to deny his genetic heritage anymore, “a chip off the old block”. First of all he needed to delve into the subject itself. So he enrolled in college again and majored in Interior Design. After that he did another course in the same area to obtain an overseas certificate. What should be in the wrong way of his current career, his graduation in Languages has become a differentiation because now he is able to ally the knowledge he acquired from Human Sciences with Art and Technics. At his modest 35 square meters studio today, Duda researches the roots of his Brazilian cultural class at depth to extract precious components to develop his design works, interior products, furniture and home accessories, turned to the contemporary sector of the market.