Alvorada
Alvorada Armchair by Larissa Sanches is a winner of the 2026 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Alvorada is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Inspired by the quiet transition of dawn, the Alvorada Armchair reflects moments of pause, renewal and introspection. Its enveloping laminated wood shells evoke distant mountains on the horizon, while the integrated upholstery and matching ottoman create a supportive and tactile seating experience that encourages relaxation and mental restoration. By combining organic references with ergonomic precision, the armchair offers a sense of comfort and balance, reinforcing the home as a place of refuge, presence and well being.
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Alvorada by Larissa Sanches
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2026.
Silver Winner
Alvorada Armchair
Alvorada is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Alvorada is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Alvorada is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Larissa Sanches
Larissa Sanches is a Brazilian authorial furniture designer based in Sao Paulo whose practice is grounded in communication, narrative construction and the symbolic dimension of design. With a degree in Journalism and specialization in 3D illustration, interior and furniture design, she develops concept-driven pieces that articulate form, usability and meaning through observation and research. Influenced by branding, semiotics and a deep connection to the arts, music, architecture and biophilic design, her work explores the relationship between people and the signs that shape their world. Each piece is conceived as a carrier of story and presence, fulfilling a function while becoming part of personal and emotional landscapes.
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Larissa Sanches Design
Larissa Sanches is a Brazilian authorial furniture designer based in Sao Paulo. Her work is guided by a communication-driven approach in which furniture is understood as a carrier of identity, meaning and narrative. She develops concept-led pieces that articulate form, function and symbolic value. Her projects explore the relationship between people, objects and contemporary living environments.
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