A graduate of the National Faculty of Architecture, Aída Boal developed a unique style of work for more than five decades, deeply autonomous and largely disconnected from the formal market. From 1964 until her passing in 2016, Aída designed and produced solid wood furniture, maintaining a small production line in her joinery shop in the hills of Rio de Janeiro.
Her furniture, designed for the use of family and friends, is the result of painstaking creative experimentation; always favoring ergonomics, comfort and aesthetic consistency, the designer developed a work connected to the modernist inspiration of her time, but markedly authorial.
In the 1990s, she successfully sold her pieces at the trendy Hum store, owned by architects Cláudio Bernardes and Sérgio Serzedello, in Rio de Janeiro.
In parallel to her work as a designer, Aída designed small houses and buildings, as well as designing the gates of the Maracanã soccer stadium and leading the restoration of the Carmo Convent in Rio de Janeiro; in recent decades, she has incorporated the artistic production of canvases and sculptures into her work.
