ARCHELLO YOUR CONNECTION WITH ARCHITECTURE

DVELAS promotes the recovery of used sails to transform them into contemporary designs, emerging as a creative reaction to harness the vast amount of material disposed from sailing ships, taking their aesthetics, materials, techniques and forms as a new way and inspiration for design.

The team is organized as a working group that investigates the fusion of two different activities, design and architecture, with the professional manufacture of sails. The idea is to use the material recovered, applying the techniques of rigging and sail-making and looking to decontextualize both, the material and technique, and apply them to design and architecture activities. Thus the way of working consists of making the sailmaker think as a designer and the designer as a sailmaker, making this empathy the key to creation towards a recycling of materials tasks and actitudes.

The activities are varied and range from interior design, exterior awnings and canopies, theater designs and art installations, and of course product design and in particular furniture.