Sandra Vila offers tailored design, artistic direction and fabrication of a wide-range of products including but not limited to furnishings, finishes, lighting, hardware and textiles. Today, quality craftsmanship has become a form of luxury. With online shopping, luxury is no longer about exclusivity. You can see what is mass versus what is special. Luxury is not about how much you can buy. Luxury is the knowledge of how to do it right, how to take the time to understand and choose well. Luxury is about buying the right thing. As we long to return to an Artisan culture, it's not only about selling a chandelier and making money from it, but it's also about how the iron was hand-forged by a skilled craftsman, how the finials were constructed from organic gemstones, and how the artisan labored over the finish to get it just right. When you discover the small details, the product and the experience become a form of luxury that is highly personalized.
Every product has its maker. An artist is one who is skilled in the fine arts. An artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A true visionary and passionate designer, Sandra Vila relies on her innate abilities and fine art background to sketch her visions, which are then hand-crafted and fabricated by select artisans. She orchestrates the end result through detailed collaboration with gifted artisans who, with delicate manipulation, can produce exclusive custom creations. With an array of design professionals who contribute their unique skills to the world of architecture, interiors and decoration, projects may be designed by a combination of diverse talents and individual experts.
Atelier \ A`te*lier\n.[F.]; pronunciation – “atl` yey”; definition – an artist’s studio or workshop.
Artisan \Ar"ti*san\n. [F.]; pronunciation – “ârtizun”; definition – one who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist; artificer.
“This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can compensate his additional toil and fatigue.”
~ Hume