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IAMMI is an artistic duo born from the collaboration between Portuguese designer Nicolau dos Santos and French-Italian art director Stephanie Blanchard.

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IAMMI experiments with shapes and materials, creating original and unconventional functional art pieces.

 

IAMMI’s works blur the line between classic and contemporary. The continuous search for new, bizarre, but above all provocative combinations of the aforementioned styles is the essence with which the duo coins each work, performance or installation.

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Their process stems from intuition, deep listening, and results in a touching experience that captures people’s emotions, prompting to act.

 

Provocative.

 

Provocative and iconic, IAMMI aims to capture emotions, to create artworks that conquer the soul by combining unexpected concepts and styles.

 

Iconic.

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The aesthetics and functionality of IAMMI pieces come together in new and bizarre ways to express the message behind each creation best.

 

 

<< A product may go out of vogue, but an idea is timeless >>.

 - IAMMI

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*Dos Santos & Blanchard, Dec 2021, Nice (FR)

Approach

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Every moment in life is marked by the activation of precise archetypes. From childhood to old age, every aspect of our existence can be brought to consciousness by exploring it and turning it into an object of our everyday life.

 

This is the IAMMI point of view, a mix between the Phenomenological Approach and the Theory of Archetypes, known and used by many psychologists, and an irreverent iconic design. Our moments of change and inner transformations are nothing more than a shift from the influence of one archetype to another, which is why it is important to live with objects that can inspire and support us in those periods. It is equally important to live with IAMMI artworks, able to brighten the days and lengthen life.

Fairs and exhibitions
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"BREAK TO THE FUTURE", Messmerizing, DDW, 10/2022, Eindhoven (NL)
 
"WHEN TIME DREAMS", The Company Studios, 06/2022, Milan (IT)
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"CORRELATION", Hotel Amour, 06/22, Nice (FR)
 
"LUMIERE", Galeria Azur, 04/2022, Berlin (DE)
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"PEEP SHOP",Le Dojo, 04/2022, Nice (Fr)
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"ELVEA", 11/2021, Milan (IT)
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"ISOLA DESIGN GALLERY", MDW21, 09/2021, Milan (IT)
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"COSAS DE CASA", Brutto Studio, 10/2020, La Coruña (ES)

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"FRAMMENTI" - WOLSHA COLLAB, Fiti, 01/2020, Milan (IT)

 

"YOUR SAFE CORNER", Futura, 01/2020, Milan (IT)

Artist residency
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"REINCANTO", Curated by Valentina Ottobri, 11/2022

Awards
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​A'design award 2021 / B-fora

Selected press
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2022, "Slow design plein Sud", Cote Magazine, P78

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2022, "Iammi, It takes an energic creative explosion to create a B-fora", L'essenziale journal v03, P146

 

2021, "La rinascita dell’Ellenismo: l’ispirazione che arriva dall’antica Grecia", AD Italian

 

2021, "Wanted", Amica

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2021, "The curvy B-fora", Cosy

 

2021, "A’ Design Award Winners Bring Hope To An Inspiring Future — And It’s Stunning", DesignTaxy

 

2021, "Are Ceramics What We Need to Feel Human Again?", Hypebeast

 

2021, "Curvy design: quando l’ispirazione è la silhouette femminile", AD Italia

 

2021, "Wanted", Amica, P32

 

2021, "Groepsgevoel", Feeling Wonen, P228-P238

 

2021, "WONEN IN 2021", Gael Maison, P128

 

2020, Cover page, KnackWeekend

 

2020, "The shape of you", Feeling Magazine, P28

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