Faria Lima Red Office

In the new N.Ideias office in São Paulo, Sig Bergamin and Murilo Lomas transform the corporate typology into a statement of language. The premise is radical and simple: a total monochrome in “Xangô red,” a color associated with Nizan Guanaes’s orixá, applied with discipline to walls, furniture, objects, and even lighting—a gesture that replaces neutrality with presence and turns the space into a manifesto. The reference that ignited the project is almost cinematic: an entirely red attic seen by Sig and Murilo in New York during a visit to Tom Ford’s home, a kind of parallel universe embedded within a more restrained architecture. Here, that idea becomes method. The office embraces intensity as atmosphere, calibrated to be “loud, vibrant, and explosive,” exactly as the client requested. On the walls, the narrative is completed by a gallery of black-and-white portraits of figures spanning innovation, culture, and symbolic power, from Steve Jobs and Clarice Lispector to Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Nelson Mandela, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Pelé, forming a panel of references as direct as the red that surrounds them. The result is an office that does not seek to merely look creative; it stages creativity as architectural matter. A space designed to provoke, inspire, and concentrate energy, closer to a cultural set than a neutral workplace, and precisely for that reason, deeply faithful to Guanaes’s restless spirit.