Simone Coste

Since her childhood on her grandmother’s farm in Brazil, Sao Paulo-based designer Simone Coste has been collecting natural elements and fashioning them into sculptural creations of distinctive beauty.

Although she studied fashion design in Brazil, her first professional success was in jewellery. After her graduation from the Parsons School of Design in New York, her pieces were featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle and W.

Now, Coste has turned her attention to furniture, creating a series of exquisite cut quartz pedestal tables that are being shown at Toronto furniture emporium Avenue Road as part of its salute to Brazilian design.