Pedaços de madeira.
Pedaços de madeira variada dentro de um saco de rede.
Bancada de trabalho com diversos materiais arrumados e óculos.
Peças de madeira diversa e de várias formas empilhadas em duas prateleiras.

“The project wasn’t designed to be sustainable. It’s sustainable because that’s our life concept.”

“O projeto não foi idealizado a pensar em ser sustentável. É sustentável porque é o nosso modo de vida.”

Amâncio trabalha com maquinaria.
Artesãos Ana Mendes e Amâncio analisam peça.

“We just found the balance between craftsmanship and design.”

 

“Nós conseguimos encontrar a harmonia entre o artesanato e o design.”

Ana e Amâncio Mendes
Amâncio trabalha uma peça em maquinaria.
Amâncio lixa madeira, no seu atelier.
Artesão Amâncio trabalha no atelier.
Amâncio traça forma dos óculos com lápis num pedaço de madeira a partir do molde.
Amâncio traça forma dos óculos com lápis num pedaço de madeira a partir do molde.
Peça de madeira é perfurada com uma broca de mesa.
Amâncio dá forma aos óculos com uma serra de esquadria.
Artesão pega em óculos redondos de madeira ainda por aperfeiçoar.
Amâncio Neves trabalha num par de óculos de madeira.
Mãos do artesão aperfeiçoam a forma dos óculos com uma pequena broca.
Amâncio testa e verifica forma dos óculos em cabeça de manequim.
Amâncio solda pequena peça metálica.
Gravação de marca em haste dos óculos.
Retrato de Ana Mendes e Amâncio Neves.
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Ana Mendes e Amâncio Neves
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Cuscuz Design is a brand that creates, through 100% manual processes, fashion, and design accessories from natural reusable materials. Resulting from a family project, between father and daughter, Cuscuz is an example of the realization of a university project presented by Ana Mendes during her degree in Architecture and Amâncio Mendes, who left his professional activity to dedicate himself to his hobby, carpentry. Since 2015, the artists have developed their creative work in a workshop in Coimbra, where they have applied the concept of Up-cycling in handicraft, creating a minimalist design for glasses and earrings.

Cuscuz Design é uma marca que cria, através de processos 100% manuais, acessórios de moda e design a partir de materiais naturais reutilizáveis. Fruto de um trabalho familiar, entre pai e filha, Cuscuz é o exemplo da concretização de um projeto universitário apresentado por Ana Mendes durante a sua licenciatura em Arquitetura e Amâncio Mendes, que deixa a atividade profissional para se dedicar ao seu hobbie, a carpintaria. Os artistas desenvolvem desde 2015 o seu trabalho criativo num atelier em Coimbra, onde têm vindo a aplicar o conceito de Upcycling no artesanato, criando um design minimalista de óculos ou brincos, uma marca que já é presença nos desfiles de moda de renome internacional.

Museu Machado de Castro

Coimbra
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Mosteiro de Santa Cruz

Coimbra
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Universidade de Coimbra (UNESCO)

Coimbra
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