Thibisay and Gabriel, Duendes del Uruguay

Our story

Before reaching your home,
they changed ours.

We are Thibisay and Gabriel. Duendes del Uruguay began in a half-built home, with a growing family and hands that were still learning. Today we continue creating and channeling together in our Piriápolis workshop.

Behind each face are time, work and a story. This is ours.

Our story

We don't create them.
We channel them.

This is the story of how two people with nothing
ended up filling the world with Guardians.

What would you do if your hands began creating
something you don't understand?

2015 · THE CABIN

We started with empty hands
and a half-built home.

A cabin raised stick by stick in Ciudad del Plata. Both of us jobless, no family nearby, a little girl and twins on the way — a high-risk pregnancy and medical tests we couldn't afford.

We loved music. And still, we sold the guitars, the piano, the microphones, the amplifiers. To eat. Yes — that simple, that hard.

And one day, in an ordinary conversation, we knew: we had to make Guardians. We didn't know why. With a huge belly, the five of us went to downtown Montevideo, in the middle of winter, to spend the last money we had on materials we didn't even know how to choose.

No molds. No school. No plan. Only Gabriel's hands — and a certainty we couldn't explain.

The first Guardian was born without anyone asking for it. Then the second. The third. We opened a page to show them, with a photo production made of pure love and zero budget… and that same afternoon, they all found homes.

That's when we understood
this wasn't a business.
It was a calling.

2017 · THE UNDERSTANDING

Each piece arrived with a name,
a story and a purpose.

We weren't creating them. We were channeling them. And that was an enormous responsibility: we had to live up to what was arriving through us.

Gabriel practiced faces endlessly — real faces, again and again, so that every Guardian would have a gaze that finds you. That obsession with getting better never left. To this day.

2020 · THE TRIAL

The world stopped.
We didn't.

Pandemic. Three kids. 300 shipments backed up, WhatsApp ringing nonstop, an agency that lost 60 Christmas packages at once, and entire nights without sleep.

And in the middle of it all, the word that explained so much: autism. We understood why everything at home was harder — and we learned to embrace it: we changed our diet, researched everything, healed what was inherited.

For many it was the year everything stopped. For us, the year that confirmed this path has no way back.
2021 · THE SIGN

A sunset in Piriápolis
chose us as home.

An ordinary walk, a dreamlike sunset, and the same certainty as always: here. We found a house near the sea and the hills, and dared to dream differently: leaving behind months-long waiting lists…

…so that every Guardian could be born free, unique, one of a kind — and choose its person, not the other way around. We don't come from money and we never found a briefcase full of dollars: we manifested it, step by step, at human speed. Because what we do cannot be done at multinational speed.

And then, a Guardian landed in Madrid.
Another in New York. Another in Tokyo.

MADRID ✦
NEW YORK ✦
TOKYO ✦

11 years creating magic · Handmade in Piriápolis · Worldwide shipping

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TODAY · THE SACRED STUDIO

We never went anywhere to learn.
We are explorers.

Everything came from within, from our own search: experimenting, practicing, failing, improving, starting again. In a big house in Piriápolis overlooking the hills, one part is home and the other is our sacred space: where the elementals are born, where every journey to the world is packed.

Every Guardian is still born with the care of the first: sculpted by hand, without molds, with a story and an intention. Eleven years of craft are present in their expression, clothing and every detail.

If one chose you, you already know: it wasn't a purchase. It was an encounter.

Three ways to welcome the magic

Today, our OOAK pieces—one-of-a-kind beings that already exist—sit alongside models we recreate to order and personal guardians, born exclusively for someone. Different paths, united by the same craft: 11 years of handwork, exploration and channeling.

Three ways to connect

Which creation feels right for you?

OOAK · Already created

This being, only once

One of a kind: a single piece exists. Their face, story and details have already come to life. You receive the exact being in the photos.

Once they find a home, they will not be recreated.

Made to order · Sculpted by hand

Their essence is born again

Choose a model you love and we sculpt them again, without molds. Their essence remains, with the nuances of each handmade creation.

Mini classics and Gaia: 30 to 40 business days for creation, before shipping.

Personal · Exclusive creation

Born only for you

Our most personal experience: one being, a couple or a family. Their appearance is a surprise; their story and connection instructions emerge during channeling.

30 to 40 business days for creation, before shipping.

Somewhere in this shop
there's a Guardian that already recognized you.

A one-of-a-kind piece, a being born again by hand, or a creation exclusively for you. Discover which story you want to meet.

FIND YOURS ✦
— Thibisay & Gabriel · Piriápolis, Uruguay ✦
✦ HANDMADE · ✦ WITHOUT MOLDS · ✦ 11 YEARS OF CRAFT