Concreto e Bossa

 

Memory: The Traveling Soul of Arque

Arque was born with the spirit of travel. In each destination, it's the art spaces that most captivate us—places where shapes, colors, and ideas come together to tell new stories.

To launch this page, which will become a veritable map of inspiring galleries around the world, we begin with an essential place: the city that influenced Arque's first collection.

 

Collection 001 — 

São Paulo, Concreto e Bossa

The traveling spirit of Arque is rooted in Brazil, carrying the essence of Brazilian bossa in its core. Our first collection found its starting point in São Paulo — a city that pulses between concrete and poetry, where modernism interacts with urban life, art blends with everyday moments, and every corner holds its own rhythm.

 

From Niemeyer’s bold curves emerged clean lines that shaped our shoes. The colors, meanwhile, were inspired by the sensitive eye of Lina Bo Bardi, who captured Brazilian energy like no one else. From vivid red to earthy brown and the gray of raw concrete, we discovered a palette that unites the strength of nature with the solidity of the city, in perfect harmony.

This fusion of precision and sensitivity gave rise to pieces that tell stories — shoes that reflect the accuracy of design and the lightness of bossa, carrying in every detail a fragment of memory, time, and place.

São Paulo, with its tireless vitality and beauty hidden in contradictions, taught us to create shoes that are timeless, essential, and at the same time full of narratives — as intense as the very city that inspired them.