Photo / David Parry
the founder
ceo and Chief Creative
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Flavia Amadeu is the Founder and CEO of AMADEU - Amazonian Materials and Design United. She has researched and developed design projects with wild rubber for fifteen years, being a PhD on Design and Sustainability from the London College of Fashion, with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion of UAL.
She has been working directly with local communities in the Amazon rainforest and with important partners/customers such as Lily Cole, Rick Owens, Vivienne Westwood, Bottletop, Artesano, WWF (at UK, USA and Brazil), SOS Amazônia, Sky Rainforest Rescue, besides having her own signature brand called FLAVIA AMADEU Sustainable Design. Today Flavia Amadeu is running The Amadeu Group from her office based in Brazil, and keeping a constant research in the field, with her various partners around the globe. |
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AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
5º lugar no Prêmio Green Product Award
Leipzig, Germany 2019
Munich, Germany 2020
Exhibition Fashioned from Nature at Victoria & Albert Museum
V&A, London, UK. April 2018 to March 2019.
Design Exhibition 1st BSB City Design - Iconic designers from Brasilia
TV Tower mezanine, Brasília, Brazil. June to July 2018.
Honorable Mention. The Brazilian Object 5th Award
Museum A CASA, São Paulo, Brazil. December - January 2016.
Floresta na Tupi. Tassì Brasil
São Paulo, October to December 2016.
Finalista no 4º Prêmio do Objeto Brasileiro
Museum A CASA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 22/10/2014 - 19/12/2014
Brazil - Denmark Contemporary Jewellery
Koldinghus Museum. Denmark. 24/08/2013 - 17/11/2013.
Permanent Exhibition at Eden Project
Cornwall, England. Since 2013.
Semana de Design de Milão 2012
Brazil: Design, Inovação e Sustentabilidade
Palazzo Affari ai Giureconsulti, Piazza dei Mercanti 2, Duomo, Milão, Itália. 17/04/2012 - 23/04/2012
Contemporary Jewelry Brazil-Dinamarca.
Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo, 07/03/2012 - 06/04/2012
Jewels from Brazil
Walford Mill Crafts, Stone Ln, Wimborne Minster,
Dorset BH21 1NL, 14/01/2012 - 26/02/2012.
Jewels from Brazil
The Hub, Sleaford, UK: 12/11/2011 - 08/11/2012
Jewels from Brazil
The Civic, Barnsley. Hanson St, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
S70 2HZ, UK 15/09/2011 - 04/11/2011.
Prêmio Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
London Design Museum. 16/02/2-11 - 07/08/2011.
Bienal Brasileira de Design 2010
Museu Oscar Niemeyer abriga a Reinvenção da Matéria, Curitiba, Brazil 14/09/2010 - 14/11/2010
The Architecture of the Object - Jewellery Exhibition.
National Library of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil. 23/03/2010 - 08/04/2010
Entre o Texto e o Têxtil: do nu ao invólucro)
Fashion art installation by Flavia Amadeu and Fabíola Alves. ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 29th April - 20th May 2008.
Organic Jewellery in Ana Barbieri's Fashion Show
Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. 04/12/2007.
Fashion Performance. Contemporary Poetics: in between fashion and art (Poéticas Contemporâneas - Entre a Moda e a Arte)
ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 2007.
Organic Jewellery and other accessories made of rubber by Flavia Amadeu at Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo
Ecco, Brasília, Brazil, 04/17/2007.
Artificial Emotion 2
Tania Fraga e Flavia Amadeu. Itaú Cultural de São Paulo, June to October 2004.
Leipzig, Germany 2019
Munich, Germany 2020
Exhibition Fashioned from Nature at Victoria & Albert Museum
V&A, London, UK. April 2018 to March 2019.
Design Exhibition 1st BSB City Design - Iconic designers from Brasilia
TV Tower mezanine, Brasília, Brazil. June to July 2018.
Honorable Mention. The Brazilian Object 5th Award
Museum A CASA, São Paulo, Brazil. December - January 2016.
Floresta na Tupi. Tassì Brasil
São Paulo, October to December 2016.
Finalista no 4º Prêmio do Objeto Brasileiro
Museum A CASA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 22/10/2014 - 19/12/2014
Brazil - Denmark Contemporary Jewellery
Koldinghus Museum. Denmark. 24/08/2013 - 17/11/2013.
Permanent Exhibition at Eden Project
Cornwall, England. Since 2013.
Semana de Design de Milão 2012
Brazil: Design, Inovação e Sustentabilidade
Palazzo Affari ai Giureconsulti, Piazza dei Mercanti 2, Duomo, Milão, Itália. 17/04/2012 - 23/04/2012
Contemporary Jewelry Brazil-Dinamarca.
Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo, 07/03/2012 - 06/04/2012
Jewels from Brazil
Walford Mill Crafts, Stone Ln, Wimborne Minster,
Dorset BH21 1NL, 14/01/2012 - 26/02/2012.
Jewels from Brazil
The Hub, Sleaford, UK: 12/11/2011 - 08/11/2012
Jewels from Brazil
The Civic, Barnsley. Hanson St, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
S70 2HZ, UK 15/09/2011 - 04/11/2011.
Prêmio Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
London Design Museum. 16/02/2-11 - 07/08/2011.
Bienal Brasileira de Design 2010
Museu Oscar Niemeyer abriga a Reinvenção da Matéria, Curitiba, Brazil 14/09/2010 - 14/11/2010
The Architecture of the Object - Jewellery Exhibition.
National Library of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil. 23/03/2010 - 08/04/2010
Entre o Texto e o Têxtil: do nu ao invólucro)
Fashion art installation by Flavia Amadeu and Fabíola Alves. ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 29th April - 20th May 2008.
Organic Jewellery in Ana Barbieri's Fashion Show
Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. 04/12/2007.
Fashion Performance. Contemporary Poetics: in between fashion and art (Poéticas Contemporâneas - Entre a Moda e a Arte)
ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 2007.
Organic Jewellery and other accessories made of rubber by Flavia Amadeu at Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo
Ecco, Brasília, Brazil, 04/17/2007.
Artificial Emotion 2
Tania Fraga e Flavia Amadeu. Itaú Cultural de São Paulo, June to October 2004.