Etel

Etel is a Brazilian furniture maker in São Paulo with more than 30 years of history, led by two generations of women: founder and designer Etel Carmona and her daughter Lissa Carmona, now CEO and curator. The company is known for sophisticated solid-wood construction, an attention to sustainability and a tightly chosen roster of designers, and it presents itself as a guardian of Brazilian design history.

Its own collections sit alongside a reissue programme that has brought back pieces by Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Jorge Zalszupin, Joaquim Tenreiro, Branco & Preto and Gregori Warchavchik, developed with the designers or their heirs and institutions. Each finished piece leaves the workshop with a DNA seal and certificate tracing its designer, year of creation and craftsman, and the brand shows in Milan as well as São Paulo.