Aged steel, varnish over controlled oxidation
Model 01 — Steel bathtub

Vitoria

Shaped by hand from steel sheet, with oxidation guided in the open workshop. No two are alike.

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Dimensions
L 160 × H 70 cm
base 130 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 piece is born in the sketchbook

Origin

Every Vitoria starts in pencil, among crossings-out and workshop arithmetic.

On the sketchbook page, the line sets the cut of the rim and the numbers that will become sheet steel: 160 in length, 130 at the base. That is where the piece exists for the first time — before the steel, before the fire.

Then the drawing crosses the bench. The sheets are cut and shaped, in the workshop's own time — no industrial mould, no hurry. The seams stay in plain sight: they are the stitching of the piece.

Oxidation is the signature. Instead of hiding the reaction of the metal, Galpón guides it, patch by patch, to the exact tone. The varnish seals that moment. That is why no two Vitorias are alike: each surface keeps its own history.

Workshop sketchbook page with drawings and dimensions of the Vitoria 16 / 01 / 26
Sketchbook — dimensions noted at the bench

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
Vitoria in the field at nightfall, facing a stand of eucalyptus
Close-up of the cut rim of the Vitoria, with the varnished interior
Vitoria seen in profile in the field, pink sky behind
Vitoria under light filtered through branches, shadows across the oxidised steel

The photographs show the piece as it leaves the workshop. The light changes, the field changes — the steel answers. It is that living behaviour of the surface that the varnish preserves.

Dimensions & prices

Spec sheet
Dimension drawing for this model
FinishPrice
PigmentedR$ 10.340,00
OxidisedR$ 10.940,00
Polished metalR$ 11.720,00
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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