About

Gonçalves Chama de Modivas was founded from a belief that certain objects deserve permanence.

Rooted in Portuguese material culture, the brand reflects a way of living shaped by utility, repetition, and quiet endurance — where tools are kept, repaired, and passed through time rather than discarded and replaced.

Fire, one of the oldest domestic necessities, became our point of focus. Not as spectacle, but as something used daily and without ceremony. From this came a desire to reimagine the matchbox — not as a disposable item, but as a lasting object with weight, presence, and purpose.

Each design draws from a tradition of restraint: metalwork made to endure, forms guided by function, and objects that earn their place in the home through continued use. The result is a system built around longevity — refillable, maintainable, and designed to remain visible rather than hidden away.

Gonçalves Chama de Modivas is not concerned with trends or novelty. It is concerned with time. With objects that settle into daily life and become familiar through use. 

The name Gonçalves Chama de Modivas reflects lineage, flame, and continuity - values deeply embedded in Portuguese culture and in the way homes are lived in over generations.

This brand exists not to follow trends, but to honour permanence.
To create objects that remain.
To design tools that stay.

This is fire, carried with intention.
And an object made to stay.

In honour of M. De Castro Gonçalves