According to Harry Brantly, co-founder of FRESCOBOL CARIOCA
Summering in the Cidade Maravilhosa is an art; we asked the founder of the brand wholly inspired by the Carioca way of life how he chooses to practice it. 

In Rio de Janeiro, mornings are measured in sunlight, rhythm, and the quiet pleasure of a shared coffee.

Why coffee evolved from a daily commodity into one of luxury’s most powerful cultural touchpoints.

We sit down for a coffee with the Founder of Café Nice – a mobile specialty café experience – for a conversation on daily rituals and creating spaces for connection.

Discover how the icon of the most famous beach in the world came to be.

For our Pre-Spring 26 collection, we journey back to our Origens. Stepping back in time to Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s where the rise of modernism began to define the landscape of the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ as we know it today. Simultaneously with the inception of the game of frescobol, the career of Oscar Niemeyer, one of Brazil’s most impactful architects, had begun.

Born in 1907 in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was brought up...

While Bossa Nova flourished alongside Rio’s beachfronts, a fresh cinematic movement began to evolve further into the city. With nothing but “a camera in their hand and an idea in their head” (Glauber Rocha), the Cinema Novo subculture created some of the most innovative film masterpieces of the past century. Contemporary with our post-modern art-deco heritage, we embark on an archeological expedition of one of Brazil’s most important and influential movements.

Much of its poetic power is...

The first FRESCOBOL CARIOCA Outpost opens its doors at Twiggy Beach Club, Dubai.

 “Only after Carnaval!” - An expression that can be applied to a multitude of tasks on any to-do list; nothing is so important that it can’t wait until after the  most anticipated week of the Brazilian calendar.  

In honour of our partnership with exclusive Maldives island resort JOALI, we caught up with  Shifaz Hassan, General Manager of JOALI Maldives.