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Bingo: this collection surprises with its playful design
by Pia Seidel
Stamps in furniture? Studio Palma makes it possible
15.8.2025
Translation: Megan Cornish
Pictures: Pia Seidel
Souvenirs often end up collecting dust on a shelf or disappearing into a drawer. Not at Palma. The Brazilian design studio immortalises small finds in furniture.
With its Souvenir collection, Palma showed at Milan Design Week how memories can be immortalised. The studio integrates coins, stamps and other relics from the past into functional works of art. Charming, a bit over the top, but just right for those who want to fish their vacation treasures out of their suitcases and showcase them.
Palma: where art meets architecture
Launched in São Paulo in 2020, Palma combines the ideas of artist Cleo Döbberthin and architect Lorenzo Lo Schiavo. The studio’s work spans a wide range of disciplines, from architecture to furniture to graphic design. Their hallmark? Their use of materials and their desire to make stories visible. This isn’t just clear in their current Souvenir collection. Previous projects – such as the Bingo collection – also showcased Palma’s creative approach to materials and themes.
The Souvenir collection: design with heart and soul
While Bingo surprised with its shapes and mix of materials, Souvenir adds a personal touch. Here, design becomes a vehicle for memories. The Jônica dining table, for example, was decorated with coins from all over the world. Crafted from pink travertine – a rare stone from Libya – the dining table tells stories of travel, cultures and generations.
The Camelo table lamp merges eggshells, brass and stamps into a mini work of art – as if old postcards were shining in a new light.
The Gambito chair also translates two-dimensional postage stamps into a three-dimensional design. It’s made of eggshell and freijó wood – a tropical hardwood from South America with a warm, golden-brown colour and fine grain.
The Souvenir collection invites you to discover the unique details and stories behind the furniture. Maybe this approach will inspire you to get creative in how you showcase your own travel memories – what about making them into a shelf instead of displaying them on one? The possibilities are endless.
Pia Seidel
Senior Editor
Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.chLike a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.
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