Visão – March 20, 2025
THE TASTE OF OTHERS
Inês Belo

“I like stones and flowers, their permanence, living in this paradox of being here and feeling eternal, knowing that tomorrow we won’t be here.”

RITA ANDRINGA
Interior Designer, 47 years old

She has been working in interior design for more than two decades. With Frank Lloyd Wright, she says she learned to think: each project must be born from the place it is, continuing it.

Book
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin’s book is not a creativity manual, but an invitation to a state of being. It’s a book that makes you want to pick it up, look at it from every angle, feel its weight, and finally read it slowly. It can improve our lives if we allow it.

Dream
Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
As a child, she dreamed of studying at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s house/school/studio in the Arizona desert. Taliesin is not just architecture; it’s a manifesto of belonging. It pulses. It expands and contracts.
Wright designed houses that grew from the earth, not on top of it. He taught me to think: each project must be born from the place it is, respecting it, continuing it, responding to it.

Quote
“Close your eyes so you won’t be blind” from Aparição by Vergílio Ferreira
There are phrases that come to us at key moments in life. I realized that even if we look at them countless times, sometimes they are out of time – out of our time. Looking does not always mean seeing. As I have come to realize, we need the darkness to understand the light – closing our eyes may be the only way to see the essential.

Experience
The Bath House at Flamingo Estate
I have an absolute fascination with bathtubs, fireplaces, stained glass, shadows, and gardens. There is a search for the Sacred in all of this. This Bath House combines all these elements and elevates the ritual of bathing to something magical. There are extraordinary places and people in the world!

Restaurant
Charrúa in Madrid
There are places that have healing power. This is one of them. It has something primordial. It’s both home and temple. The aroma, the light, the mystery, the balance between restraint and explosion—it is from heaven and from earth. I return and will always return whenever I can get a table!

Time
Stones & Flowers
Since I was little, I’ve liked stones and flowers. I can’t choose between them. I like their permanence and impermanence, living in this paradox of being here and feeling eternal but also secretly knowing that tomorrow we won’t be here. We feel like megalithic monuments or precious stones, but we have the fragility of an orchid. If anyone wants to know what Time is, just look at them.

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