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BRAZILIAN FURNITURE

More often than not, vintage mid-century Brazilian furniture designs, with their gleaming wood, soft leathers and inviting shapes, share a sensuous, unique quality that distinguishes them from the more rectilinear output of American and Scandinavian makers of the same era.

Commencing in the 1940s and '50s, a group of architects and designers transformed the local cultural landscape in Brazil, merging the modernist vernacular popular in Europe and the United States with the South American country's traditional techniques and indigenous materials.

Key mid-century influencers on Brazilian furniture design include natives Oscar NiemeyerSergio Rodrigues and José Zanine Caldas as well as such European immigrants as Joaquim TenreiroJean Gillon and Jorge Zalszupin. These creators frequently collaborated; for instance, Niemeyer, an internationally acclaimed architect, commissioned many of them to furnish his residential and institutional buildings.

The popularity of Brazilian modern furniture has made household names of these designers and other greats. Their particular brand of modernism is characterized by an émigré point of view (some were Lithuanian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, and Italian), a preference for highly figured indigenous Brazilian woods, a reverence for nature as an inspiration and an atelier or small-production mentality.

Hallmarks of Brazilian mid-century design include smooth, sculptural forms and the use of native woods like rosewoodjacaranda and pequi. The work of designers today exhibits many of the same qualities, though with a marked interest in exploring new materials (witness the Campana Brothers' stuffed-animal chairs) and an emphasis on looking inward rather than to other countries for inspiration.

Find a collection of vintage Brazilian furniture on 1stDibs that includes chairssofastables and more.

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Place of Origin: Brazilian
Selfish Table Mirror Large Polished Brass by decarvalho atelier
By Decarvalho Atelier
Located in São Paulo, BR
selfish table mirrors The name of the collection is a pun, self and selfishness – it is a ``critique`` of the current quest for perfection, the pressure we suffer to always be tidy a...
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2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Table Mirrors

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Selfish Table Mirror Small Polished Brass by decarvalho atelier
By Decarvalho Atelier
Located in São Paulo, BR
selfish table mirrors The name of the collection is a pun, self and selfishness – it is a ``critique`` of the current quest for perfection, the pressure we suffer to always be tidy a...
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2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Table Mirrors

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Brass

"Fons" Tray and Mirror in Solid Wood
By Alessandra Delgado
Located in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Lignum in Latin means wood. Fons can be used eigther as a tray or a mirror. It is prepared with a delicated hole on the back to be easily fixed to your wall The idea of the Lignum ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Table Mirrors

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Wood

"Fons" Tray and Mirror in Solid Wood
By Alessandra Delgado
Located in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Lignum in Latin means wood. Fons can be used either as a tray or a mirror. It is prepared with a delicated hole on the back to be easily fixed to your wall The idea of the Lignum c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Table Mirrors

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Wood

Reliquary Mirror: made in Brazil with imbuia wood and bronze mirror
By Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros
Located in Jundiaí, SP
Entirely made of solid imbuia and 4mm bronze mirror, the Reliquary Mirror it's a collectible design piece. Leaning on the table or installed on the wall, this piece attracts attention and can be placed in different spaces, as the entrance hall or as a support on the dressing table, decorating the wall in the living room or on the counter in the social bathroom. The effect of light and shadow created by natural light is captured by the delicate design that runs through the wood and allows a glimpse of the hidden mirror. Like a reliquary, which holds the image of our loved ones, when we open this piece we come across our reflected image, reminding us that we need to be the most important person to ourselves, because only then will we be able to truly love someone. . The Reliquary Mirror is inspired in the storie of Wagner Trindade, an artisan who learned from his father how to make Moroccan lamps in Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, and through time discovered beautiful ways of mixing new techniques with his family tradition. It is possible to choose the opening side of the Reliquary Mirror when installing it on the wall, and its wooden hinge allows even to be placed on a table or sideboard, if wished. Because it is made in solid imbuia each one will always be one as the wood varies in tones and veins. It is part of Yankatu's Artisans collection. To create them Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros researched the Brazilian colonial...
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2010s Other Brazilian Table Mirrors

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Wood, Mirror, Imbuia

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