Meraki & Hodo was born not from commerce, but from pilgrimage. From walking cities where every street felt like a sentence, from standing in galleries where silence spoke louder than crowds, from touching fabrics dense with centuries of hands.

Its name carries the soul of this vision. In Greek, Meraki (μεράκι) is devotion—to create with such love that a fragment of your soul remains in the work. Hodo (ὁδός) is the path, the journey that devotion takes. Meraki & Hodo is the soul’s journey in beauty—devotion made visible, memory given form.

The atelier is my travel diary in three dimensions: cloth that remembers, porcelain that listens, canvases that preserve what words cannot. It is yours as much as mine. When you take a piece and make it your own, you become co-curator, co-author. Together, we inscribe what endures.

I believe beauty is more than what we see—it is what remains. The perfume that lingers like incense in Seville long after the procession has passed. The embroidery kept when words no longer suffice. A city memory, crystallized in azulejo blue, refusing to fade.

Nothing here is ordinary. Each piece is an artifact of a literary life, inscribed and whispered with meaning. Cotton—ethically grown in America, air-spun with Milanese precision into cloth that endures. Porcelain—glazed to a soft translucence that recalls Kyoto tea bowls. Typography—carrying the weight of Roman stone, softened by the curve of Lisbon’s tram bells.

Personalization is not a service. It is the heart of what we do. To inscribe a date, a name, a fragment of poetry is to say: this moment is evidence, not ephemera. No inscription enters the archive without my eyes upon it.

Beauty does not ask for justification. It transforms us quietly, irreversibly. It saves us, one artifact at a time.

Welcome to the atelier. Welcome to the archive. Welcome to the language we now share.

With gratitude, with wonder, with devotion,

Melissa De Luna-Ribeiro

Founder & Curator, Meraki & Hodo