Vazio S/A was founded in the 2000s, but prior to that, the studio operated as a partnership between architects Carlos M. Teixeira and Helena Teixeira Rios. The first pieces designed by the siblings established a unique design vocabulary that, years later, would serve as the starting point for Casa Design Brasileiro, a woodworking shop that employed more than 30 people and operated until 2012.
The partnership began with the seminal (and serendipitous!) Mesa Tora I, from 1995. Helena and Carlos knew of two logs that had been forgotten in the garden of the house where they lived—a residence in Pampulha designed by Zanine Caldas and built by their parents in the 1970s. The logs were beams from the house’s wooden structure that, for some reason, had not been used and had been left out in the open for nearly 20 years.
Building on this table, the duo created furniture with whose materiality contrasts rustic and precise elements, combining roughness with lightness, weight with absence, the primitive with the minimalist. After seven years of working together, Helena chose to found Casa Design Brasileiro (2002–2012), while Carlos founded the architecture firm Vazio S/A (2002–present).
The collection presented here is a compendium spanning three decades, beginning with pieces from the 1990s and ending in 2026. The earlier pieces are co-signed by the siblings, while the post-2002 production is by Vazio S/A.
1 Reinforcing steel bars