About

Formed over twenty years by Marisa Moreira Salles and Tomas Alvim, the BEĨ Collection comprises more than 1,300 Brazilian indigenous stools from 53 ethnic groups. A large part of the collection is made up of stools from the Xingu Indigenous Territory, in Mato Grosso, but it also includes the production of people from Acre, Pará, Tocantins, Amapá, Roraima, Amazonas and Santa Catarina.

The stools combine functionality and beauty; while recognized as objects of art and design, they preserve their religious and symbolic dimension: carved from wood, often in animal shapes, decorated with graphics or coloured with various pigments, they reflect the cultural universe and cosmology of the ethnic groups that create them.