Brazilian Furniture and Design
Furniture and design from Brazil, where modernist ideas met native hardwoods, hand skills and, more recently, inventive reuse of everyday materials.
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Brazilian modern design began with émigrés. The Ukrainian-born architect Gregori Warchavchik built one of the country's first modernist houses in São Paulo in the late 1920s and designed its furniture himself. Portuguese-born Joaquim Tenreiro pared furniture down to light frames of solid wood; his three-legged chair (1947) joins several contrasting timbers. Lina Bo Bardi, who arrived from Italy in 1946, designed the Bowl Chair (1951), a hemispherical seat resting loosely in a ring frame.
Sergio Rodrigues gave the style a relaxed, generous character with the leather-slung Mole armchair (1957). José Zanine Caldas later carved furniture from salvaged trunks, and Percival Lafer worked in leather and steel. Since the 1990s Fernando and Humberto Campana have built chairs from tangled cord, wooden offcuts and rolled strips of fabric, beginning with the Vermelha chair (1993). Many older pieces use jacarandá, a rosewood whose trade has been tightly restricted since the 1990s.
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