Anna Maya is bringing Ginga a capoeira-inspired seating system to Salone del Mobile 2026, and it arrives less like furniture and more like a choreography set in upholstery.

The name comes from capoeira’s foundational movement: a fluid, never-stopping oscillation between stability and escape. That’s not metaphor. It’s the actual design logic. Each module can rotate, combine, or reconfigure. The forms shift with the room.

A curved base, smooth, low, and almost pebble-like, gives way to a gathered spherical backrest perched on a small wood orb. The pleating on that sphere is exquisite: tight, radial, equal parts artisan textile and precision geometry. It reads soft. It reads serious.

Grouped together, the pieces suggest a conversation already in progress. Separated, each unit holds its own. It’s the kind of modular lounge seating that earns its floor plan footprint, in a hotel lobby, a hospitality lounge, or any common area that needs to feel like more than a waiting room.

Anna Maya draws from a deep cultural through-line, and it comes through without turning literal. Like the expressive forms in Let the Chairs Do the Talking, Ginga understands that furniture can shape mood before anyone even sits down.  

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