Round steel basin, hammered or aged
Model 03 — Steel bathtub

Bacio

A metre and a half across, fifty centimetres deep. The simplest geometry in the series — and the hardest to shape.

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Dimensions
Ø 150 cm × H 60 cm
base Ø 120 cm
Material
Steel sheet shaped by hand
Finishes
Paint · Aged · Polished metal, always sealed with varnish
Edition
Made to order — a surface that repeats in no other piece

The circle is the hardest one

Origin

A basin looks simple until you try to make one.

The Bacio gives up the drawn silhouette and keeps the essential form: a 150 cm circle narrowing to a 120 cm base. No cut-out, no curve to disguise anything — the piece is the sheet and the weld.

That is exactly why it is the most demanding piece on the bench. A straight wall forgives; a circular wall exposes any variation in radius. The accuracy has to come from the eye and the hand, point by point around the whole body.

Low and wide, it changes how you use it: instead of lying down, you sit and spread out. It is the piece that most calls for open air — a veranda, a deck, the timber floor of the workshop.

Bacio in steel in the workshop, among paintings and timber Ø 150 cm
The piece in the workshop, between timber and iron

Four stages

Process
01

Sketchbook

Sketch, dimensions and decisions — the piece drawn before it exists.

02

Sheet

Cutting and shaping the steel by hand, seam by seam.

03

Oxidation

The reaction of the metal guided to the right tone — the signature of the piece.

04

Varnish

The surface sealed at its exact moment, to last.

In the field

Original images, no retouching
Bacio in polished steel in the workshop, with late-afternoon light coming through the plastic
Bacio on the deck, with the eucalyptus and the farm buildings behind
Bacio head-on, against the wall of peeling white boards

The original piece, photographed in the workshop and on the deck — no studio, no retouching, no render passing for a photo. Polished steel changes colour with the hour of the day.

Dimensions & prices

Spec sheet
Dimension drawing for this model
FinishPrice
PigmentedR$ 12.290,00
OxidisedR$ 12.790,00
Polished metalR$ 13.620,00
Ask us about custom finishes Prices in Brazilian reais · ask about payment methods We ship worldwide — freight quoted by destination
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Manifesto
“Listen and understand, so you can create.”
Victor R. R. Mendes — maker at Galpón

The workshop works with its doors open. Every order starts with a conversation — the piece is drawn for your space, your use, your time.

Victor R. R. Mendes walking through the field beside a Galpón piece

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