Mobilia Tempo

In 2012, while organizing files for a book, Ricardo van Steen collected more than 30 furniture design creations throughout his professional career, whether as an art director, film director, set designer, or architect. He felt a kind of "unexpected spiritual charge." Not long after this episode, he completely changed from the audiovisual world to architecture and interiors.

In the following decade, with the understanding of an author combined with technical research, van Steen sought his kind of truth in the language of furniture. This results in notably expressionist and often provocative pieces brought together in his Mobilia Tempo brand, which maintains creative partnerships with names such as André Paoliello, Artur Lescher, and Argentine Leo Ceolin. Each work offers the viewer a particular vision of what a piece of furniture might look like.

Mobilia Tempo is guided by the principle of simplicity. It avoids unnecessary embellishments and draws the sculptural curve of a sofa or the graphic forms of a lamp in clean strokes as accurately as possible.

The designer finds himself immersed in his own world; the protagonist is always the material. After the material is the method of manipulation, he regularly participates in SP-Arte, and his creations are in galleries across Brazil and the world.

"The rapprochement between artisan knowledge and cutting-edge technology can generate great inventions. I like being the agent of this symbiosis."