Atelier d’Guide: Who We Are

We are Andris and Débora, and Atelier d’Guide is the space where we are building our work in Guide, Trás-os-Montes.

Before returning to Portugal, we spent several years in Latvia, where we were co-founders of Obelisk Farm, a hemp farm that brought together cultivation, education, and hands-on experiences. Even as life led us in a new direction, many of the ideas formed there stayed with us. Back in Portugal, in a family house that belonged to Débora’s father, those ideas found a new place to grow. Established in 2026, Atelier d’Guide is part of that continuation.

Our work here grows from a close relationship with plants and natural materials. We are interested in exploring what these materials can do, how they can be transformed, and how knowledge can grow through direct experience, observation, and research.

Atelier d’Guide brings together different parts of what we do. It is where we develop products, test ideas, work with materials, and deepen our understanding of the processes behind them. It is also where we open that work to others through workshops, courses, and shared moments of learning.

Atelier d’Guide reflects the way we want to work and live: close to the materials, open to experimentation, rooted in research, and attentive to the possibilities that can emerge from the territory around us.