Giestas Mobiliário

Orange juice on the new sofa. Pen on the upholstery of the favourite chair. A chocolate stain on the living room rug. Any parent knows this scenario, and many have already reached the wrong conclusion: that the solution is to forbid the children from sitting on the nice furniture in the house. It isn’t. The […]

There are rooms that seem complete but are missing something. It isn’t a piece of furniture, it isn’t colour, it isn’t light. It is presence. Well-chosen decorative sculptures solve that: they organise the eye, anchor the room and give identity to an interior that before seemed merely furnished. The difference between a piece that “decorates” […]

Choosing the best mattress for a good night’s sleep is a decision many people make poorly informed: they walk into a shop, lie down for a few minutes on a random model and try to work out whether it will work for the next ten years. Choosing the right mattress has a real impact on […]

Walking into a room that seems thought out to the last detail is a feeling you recognise at once. There is balance, there is comfort, there is a common thread linking every element. Walking into a room put together without criteria is also recognisable: disproportionate furniture, harsh lighting, decorative pieces unrelated to one another. The […]

The bedroom is the room of the house where we spend, on average, a third of our lives — and it is also the one that depends most on light (or the absence of it) to work well. Even so, the choice of curtains is often made in a hurry, frequently at the end of […]

There is a sentence that anyone living in a small apartment has heard from themselves: “there’s no room for anything else here.” And most of the time, it isn’t really true. What’s missing isn’t space, it’s method. A 40 or 50 square metre apartment can feel cramped and improvised, or it can feel intentional and […]