Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura Designs São Paulo Chocolate Shop With Efficiency in Mind
April 1, 2021
At Dengo, a 16,000-square-foot chocolate concept store in São Paulo by Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura, native
peroba do campo, or mahogany, composes the table bases, casegoods, and bar face in the Meu Dengo station, where customers can customize ingredients. Photography by Fran Parente.
Its 120K Instagram followers is one indication that Dengo is a producer of world-changing chocolate, or, for those fluent in Portuguese,
Chocolate com sabor de mudar o mundo, the Brazilian company’s slogan. Its cocoa comes from trees in sustainably managed agroforests, and the Bahia farmers from which the beans are acquired are fairly paid. Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura was equally conscientious in its design of Dengo’s first freestanding site, a four-story concept store in São Paulo that also happens to be the country’s tallest wooden building. And tha