Aída Boal

Aída Boal was a Brazilian architect and designer who graduated from the National Faculty of Architecture and developed, over more than five decades, a highly autonomous practice largely outside the formal market.

From 1964 onward, she designed and produced solid wood furniture in a small joinery workshop in the hills of Rio de Janeiro, originally created for personal use and for close friends. Her work emerged from continuous experimentation, consistently prioritizing ergonomics, comfort, and formal coherence, while maintaining a strong connection to the modernist principles of her time through a distinctly authorial approach.

In the 1990s, her furniture reached a wider audience through the Hum store in Rio de Janeiro, owned by architects Cláudio Bernardes and Sérgio Serzedello. Alongside her furniture production, Aída also worked as an architect, designing small houses and buildings, contributing to projects such as the gates of the Maracanã Stadium, and leading the restoration of the Carmo Convent in Rio de Janeiro. In her later years, she expanded her practice to include painting and sculpture, further consolidating her multidisciplinary trajectory.