spazio magazine, issue 01

pre-order: issue 01 is being printed now. order your copy today and we send it as soon as it comes off the press.

this is the first printed issue of spazio, a gallery for collectible design and fine art that carolina hering and julian botti run from cascais. we chose every studio in it ourselves, one at a time. most are one or two people, and whoever designs a piece works close to where it is made and can say why it looks the way it does.

“cork belongs exactly where the hands touch it,” robert megel once said of his furniture, and in 'cork-x' he sets the cork on a frame of aluminium. the issue introduces the people behind each studio and how their pieces are made, often in their own words.

it opens with pages to read and to choose from, among them an essay on how lucas gutierrez carries images from the screen onto the loom and a poem by matheus de toni, in its portuguese original and in english. then come the studios, after a visit to atelier von ehren, in four chapters by material and a last one of small ceremonies. a code on each studio's page opens all of its pieces in the shop.

• issue 01, winter 2026
• 220 × 300 mm, 188 pages
• inside pages on munken pure 120 g, an uncoated paper
• softcover in invercote 300 g, matte laminated, perfect bound
• in english, the poem also in portuguese
• printed by gráfica 99 in lisbon