To combine substance and integrity, to challenge technology and craftsmanship, without ever compromising seamless articulation between designers, engineers and craftsmen. For Bang & Olufsen Vice President Gavin Ivester, these are among the fundamentals that sustain over nine decades of experience, an immersive quest that has resulted in the development of unique products with the power to enhance the lives of those that use them. 

When Filipe Lucas Frazão greeted us at his home in São Caetano, Pico, a few seconds were all it took for us to sense the family and – above all – genuine ambience – that it would distinguish this night of our trip.  

Francisco Garcia de Freitas, Luís Costa Valente, Paulo Vieira Borralho and Rui Velho Didier are the names behind RUA, a studio whose common discourse ‘still under construction’ is based on more horizontal rather than hierarchical collective model.