Life in Brasil > The week in Penedo

The front and back of the bamboo sofa structure leaning against the veranda wall. 

We talked about in for almost a 

year and this week it 

came to pass : 

Our Bamboo Furniture Workshop. 

After cutting and drying 

the bamboo, 

Carpenter Rick Viola 

have started the work 

with a rustic sofa. 

the veranda roof of Casa da Ilha



The fresh vegetable market
by the river
in Resende is
open on sundays. 

 Tomate de Arvore or Tomatillo 

and Jilo are new for me. 

There are a lot of new tastes and textures to try.   

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Masked outside the tiny Airport. 

We came by an old airport 

from the 1940

 in the middle 

of Resende 

that is used mostly 

for small 

private planes and 

sky divers of all kinds. 

Airport from the 1940´s in Resende. 

Every week there is a 

new flower or plant 

I discover in the 

garden at Casa da Ilha. 

Bastao do Imperador or Torch Ginger has become a favorite to photograph..

The Garden here at Casa da Ilha 

is huge

 and there is always 

something new to discover. 

Tomate de arvore on the black ceramic plates outside the
kitchen veranda where the pumpkins grow. 

Bamboo Furniture Workshop at Casa da Ilha.

When the sofa structure is ready 

I will enforce the joints with sisal 

rope more for design reasons, 

is the idea. 

We will see how that 

will work out.

Started the Textile, Color and Details Update textile face

 with hanging the just made curtains at 

Hotel Pequena Suecia on wednesday 

evening in 30 degrees celsius was a good workout. 

Hanging curtains at 330 cm height

The terrace at Blekinge room 13

Blekinge room 13 at Pequena Suecia

By simplifying the color choices and creating a painted headboard with a wooden frame. A new back pillow was constructed along with the semi bed cover and new curtains to match. 

Our first room is a test to see what strategy to use in the coming over individual designed 20 rooms we will update slowly but surely. 

Room Blekinge 13 Pequena Suecia

An open fireplace in the bedroom. 

Room Blekinge has a living 

room and a bedroom as well as a 

small roofed terrace and a mini garden. 

Bucha in a bamboo basket

The veranda is where the 

action is but 

Branco 

manage to lounge anyway. 

most of the time...

Bamboo connection

A week with work at the hotel as well as learning so much about bamboo is really a dream come true. I am so lucky to have found work here in Brasil that I love to do.

 Below you see Bucha pods that have been 

cleaned at the lay in the sun to dry. 

In the shade at the veranda you see the 

Bamboo result of our Furniture Workshop.

If I can create what I would like from this 

sponge material that Bucha is I 

am going to be very content. 

The plan is to make a 

type of organic pendant  

design using Bucha 

as the main material. 

Stay in touch 

Wishing you a good 

week from Penedo, 

Jimmy 

Bucha drying in the afternoon sun.