Maeve

MAEVE is a Portuguese design studio founded in Porto in 2021 by Ana Medeiros, creating sculptural furniture, lighting, tableware, and decorative objects. Trained in interior design, Medeiros completed a PhD at the University of Lisbon, where her research explored the body in motion. Her background in designing ephemeral spaces informs the studio’s approach, connecting the shape of individual objects with the ways people move through, touch, and inhabit a room.

Working with artisans and jewellers across Portugal, MAEVE brings traditional craft knowledge into contemporary design. Its pieces combine carefully developed silhouettes with surfaces that invite close attention, using texture, reflection, and material contrasts to shape their presence within an interior. Small, hand-punched marks identify the studio’s objects, placing a discreet trace of their making within works conceived for everyday use and lasting ownership.

Nature provides a recurring vocabulary, with leaves, branches, and botanical structures translated into furniture and functional objects. The Palm sofa combines polished brass and upholstery in a form inspired by the curves of weathered palm leaves. In the Folia wall lamp, the shape and texture of a palm leaf become a sculptural lighting element, while the Ramum candle holder draws on forest branches to introduce a sense of organic movement at the scale of the tabletop.

These references continue through the studio’s exploration of materials. The Folia console pairs brass with marble, including Carrara, Nero Marquina, and Dark Emperador, while the Folia side table offers pinewood with a Yakisugi finish alongside a Carrara option. The Palm table lamp brings handcrafted brass leaves together with an Estremoz marble base. Across these works, botanical forms connect objects of different sizes, from intimate lighting pieces to furniture that establishes a room’s composition.

MAEVE places heritage and longevity at the centre of its practice, approaching craftsmanship as knowledge sustained through continued use. Alongside its collections, the studio offers adaptations of existing designs and bespoke commissions, allowing materials, finishes, and proportions to respond to particular interiors. This relationship between craft and context supports its wider ambition: to create objects that remain meaningful through their physical qualities, daily use, and the personal associations they acquire over time.

Maeve’s complete catalog available upon request.