A reflection on Christmas in Brazil, the conventions we repeat, and the possibility of reinterpreting decoration as a gesture of pause, encounter, and transition to a new cycle that goes from Christmas to the New Year.

Visiting CASACOR 2025 in the same year I began architecture school expanded my understanding of interior design. Each space revealed how color, light, sound, form, and concept work together to create atmospheres that are felt before they are understood.

History is not something distant. It returns whenever humanity distances itself too much from nature. Art Nouveau was that in the past. Biophilic design is that today.