Leonardo Lague

Leo Lague spent his childhood in southern Brazil, shaping a subtle duality between the natural landscape and the plants and industrial facilities of the coal region. This period coincided with the turn of the millennium, marking the shift from analogue to digital, the dawning era of the internet and profound dilemmas about the future of humanity.

Growing up close to his family's artistic and cultural universe, Lague absorbed a significant dose of narratives, leading him, years later, to design scenography, lighting projects and atmospheres for independent parties that featured porto alegre's subculture. This environment expands your repertoire and experiences, reclaiming the reality of the city and space.

Through design, Leo Lague found a way of expressing himself. Familiar with architectural plans and furniture long before attending college, he used the family furniture store as a laboratory where he could explore the world of design. At the age of 16, he established links with the local creative scene, early contact with industries and names that fostered the history of brazilian design.

Through the mentorship of businessman Houssein Jarouche, the name behind Micasa - a reference in design curation, launching his first line of furniture called Apollo in 2022 - the pieces allude to classical archetypes, symbols of greek mythology and the renaissance, and function as monuments carved, where the raw surface resembles the weight of the marble. The solution to create large pieces optimized for weight led to the development of the technique of structuring the piece in wood with a coating of acrylic masses, resins and cement in collaboration with artisans specialized in an industrial dynamic.

Lague's work develops at the intersection of history, semiotics, mythology and anthropology. Faced with the enigmas of the world, he proposes pieces where present and future, life and death, artisanal and industrial, secular and sacred, real and fiction, converge and collide.