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The founder of Moonmade, Ebru Rato, is an architect  who has always been fond of art and design. She is from Istanbul where she studied architecture urban design. After living and working many years as an architect in Belgium and Turkey, she moved to Portugal in the end of 2021. She continues to design for Moonmade and grow with it as well as her architectural journey.  

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Her interest in paper and origami started to get more serious in 2010.  She was influenced by the connection between origami and design as well as the ability of creating three dimensional forms  from a  simple  and recyclable material. She loves to imagine new projects, to abstract one of her greatest source of inspiration ‘nature’ by the use of paper, to test with new colors, textures and forms as well as creating objects that make their users happy .

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Using paper as a sustainable material and mostly origami as the technique, Moonmade does:

     

Unfading and maintenance-free paper flower designs
Ornaments and decors for your special day (birthday, baby shower, wedding or any other occasion) 

Sustainable personal accessories

Decorative objects and gifts for kids’ rooms
Retail window decoration
Corporate gifts and events
Origami and craft workshops for different ages