It was in Tumbira, a riverside community on the Rio Negro (AM) that Fernanda Marques and Marcelo Rosenbaum collaborated with the artisan Manoel Garrido in the creation of vases carved on lathe made with sustainably managed wood. And it is from this project that the Tumbi Collection in collaboration with St James was born. From the depths of the forest, knowledge was born to build the ancestral. From the factory floor of St. James, an object of unparalleled delicacy. And still able to diffuse light.

‘It is interesting to observe the unconventional trajectory of the Tumbi Collection: from native wood with its unique coloring to ultra-polished metal. From decorative to functional objects. In this case, a lamp. And this without ever renouncing its strong identity.’

‘Although working with very different objectives, in this collection for St James, I feel that I never moved away from the concept of receptacle, of continent. In the first case to receive water, grains, earth. Living matter, in short. I venture to create an object that its able to contain the immaterial, the unattainable. In this case, light’, says Fernanda.