The Design Centre Nini Andrade Silva is a place of meeting and sharing – a laboratory of ideas – gifted with services and unique spatial valences, such as the permanent exhibition, a store, cafeteria-lounge and a restaurant.

In addition to documenting career and work of the designer, the Design Centre seeks an active and dynamic way to be itself as a laboratory of ideas, as well as a hub for innovation and development where all the expressions and artistic thoughts may find a home.

The existing permanent exhibition, which is a part of the private collection of the prestigious international designer Nini Andrade Silva, is at the origin of the Design Centre’s creation, a project whose expository speech helps to explain, in a way that is unheard of, the history and culture of Madeira Island and its strong connection to the history of the sea.

"(...) The impact of Nini Andrade Silva’s work exceeds its source of inspiration, acquiring autonomy and a life of its own, independently of its origin, to impose itself with its plastic beauty and a finesse in execution that strangely approachesit to the velvety and delicacy of the great masters of photography.”

In, Colecção Berardo - Corpo e Matéria: Cinco Artistas da Madeira. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna Colecção Berardo. Sintra, 2008.