Afrodite Bench by Mameluca

With reference to Paul Nacke’s theories about Narcissism, an attitude of a person who treats his own body in the same way as the body of a sexual object is treated; with contemplation of the self, through to complete self-satisfaction, we create Libidinous Objects. Inanimate objects that references the domestic setting of the home and the Sextiles, tiles manipulated to describe the female body, creating excitement through tactile and visual stimuli exacerbating their libidinal aspects.

“Our goal with design is to tell stories, generating questions, emotions and discoveries through human senses. Contemporary design transcends basic survival needs and leads us to a poetic design of new information and experiences.”
The studio was launched in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After 10 years, it’s time to cross the Atlantic and explore the old world not only historically but the way the old has being reinvented everyday based on the needs of the new. We are still in a transitional atmosphere without a physical space, but full of expectations with the new horizon.