Alessandra Delgado Design
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Leather, Velvet, Polyester, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Leather, Velvet, Polyester, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Leather, Polyester, Velvet, Canvas, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood, Leather, Canvas, Velvet, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood, Leather, Canvas, Velvet, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood, Cotton, Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Cotton, Wood, Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Armchairs
Canvas, Velvet, Synthetic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Music Stands
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Stools
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Dry Bars
Laminate, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Wood, Cotton
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Credenzas
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Music Stands
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sofas
Fabric
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Minimalist Dining Room Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Benches
Steel
2010s Brazilian Modern Dining Room Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Armchairs
Canvas, Velvet, Synthetic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Armchairs
Canvas, Velvet, Synthetic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Armchairs
Canvas, Velvet, Synthetic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Chairs
Wood, Leather, Canvas, Velvet, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Rustic Dining Room Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
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A Close Look at modern Furniture
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
On the Origins of brazilian
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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