Brazilian Paintings
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 Niemeyer, Sergio Rodrigues and José Zanine Caldas as well as such European immigrants as Joaquim Tenreiro, Jean 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 rosewood, jacaranda 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.
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2010s Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1960s Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1980s Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1980s Post-Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Other Brazilian Paintings
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20th Century Modern Brazilian Paintings
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20th Century Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1970s Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1970s Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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Late 20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Modern Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Organic Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Paintings
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1970s Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
Early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Brazilian Paintings
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Brazilian Paintings
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1980s Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1910s Belle Époque Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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Late 20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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1990s Modern Brazilian Paintings
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1950s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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19th Century Neoclassical Antique Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Sporting Art Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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Early 19th Century Grand Tour Antique Brazilian Paintings
Glass, Wood, Paper
Late 19th Century Renaissance Revival Antique Brazilian Paintings
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Other Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Modern Brazilian Paintings
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Early 20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Organic Modern Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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20th Century British Colonial Brazilian Paintings
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2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Brazilian Paintings
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Paintings
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