With 24 years of age, Andrea Barrail made her first appearance at Design Miami with Cristina Grajales Gallery from New York on December 2016.

Her collection Ambüe made a debut next to the inspiration for her jewelry line; her father architect and designer Pedro Barrail who was showing once again his modern furniture hand tattooed by Paraguayan tribe Pai Tavytera.

A clash between the luxurious and the common, mixing 18k gold with traditional humble lifestyles, this collection is how she chose to Represent Paraguay.

These “bugs”, as she calls them, are a metaphor of transformation and adaptation, of change for the body and soul. As hard as it may be, it is what makes us beautiful and perfect in our own bizarre way.

Keeping the traditional Paraguayan craftsmanship known as “filigree”, Andrea chose to keep working with thin strand-like rods, but in this case as separate as possible as opposed to the traditional as close as possible.