Boia Armchair by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Boia Armchair by Alva Design Dimensions: W 95 x D 90 x H 78 cm Materials: Solid Wood, Leather
2010s Brazilian Modern Armchairs
Leather, Upholstery, Wood
Boia Armchair by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Boia Armchair by Alva Design Dimensions: W 95 x D 90 x H 78 cm Materials: Solid Wood, Leather
Leather, Upholstery, Wood
Bo, Bench by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Bo - Bench by Alva Design Materials: Metalic and wooden structure, leather seat, brass spheres
Metal, Brass
Mais, Desk by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mais - Desk by Alva Design Materials: Wood, MDF, Formica, Leather details Dimensions: 190 x 87 x 74
Leather, Wood
Bo, Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Bo - stool by Alva Design Materials: Metalic and wooden structure, leather seat, brass spheres
Metal, Brass
Cross Bookcase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Cross Bookcase by Alva Design Materials: MDF veneered in natural wood, Tempered glass 12mm
Glass, Wood
Cerca Screen by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Cerca Screen by Alva Design Dimensions: D 3 x W 290 x H 185 cm. Materials: Solid wood (Peroba
Brass
Soapstone Amorfo 01 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amorfo 01 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 17 x H 25 cm ALVA is a furniture
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 05 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 05 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 35 x H 6 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 03 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 03 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 11 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 04 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 04 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 35 x h 6 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 01 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amorfo 01 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 17 x H 25 cm ALVA is a furniture and
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 08 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 08 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 6 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 09 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 09 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 18 x H 15 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 07 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 07 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 7 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 06 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 06 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 11 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 02 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amorfo 02 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 25 x H 15 cm ALVA is a furniture
Soapstone
Soapstone Amorfo 10 by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soapstone Amorfo 10 by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: Ø 30 x h 25 cm ALVA is a
Soapstone
Leva 60, Table by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Leva 60 - Table by Alva Design Materials: Painted metal, stainless steel Dimensions: 643 x 60 x 32
Metal, Stainless Steel
Leva 50 - Table by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Leva 50 - Table by Alva Design Materials: Painted Metal, Stainless Steel Dimensions: 60 x 50 x 32
Metal, Stainless Steel
Leva 40, Table by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Leva 40 - Table by Alva Design Materials: Painted metal, stainless steel Dimensions: 60 x 40 x 59
Metal, Stainless Steel
Úmero Coat Rack by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Infinito Soapstone and Brass Sculpture by Alva Design Dimensions: D 13 x W 47 x H 116 cm
Soapstone, Brass
Finito Soapstone Sculpture by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Finito Soapstone Sculpture by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone. Dimensions: Ø 18 x H 45 cm
Soapstone
Ita 1, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ita 1 - Soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone, brass Dimensions: 22 (Ø) x 32 (H) ALVA
Soapstone
Ita 3, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ita 3 - Soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone, solid wood, Dimensions: 24 (Ø) x 32 (H
Soapstone
Mais, Dark Freijo Table, by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mais - Dark Freijo table - by Alva Design Materials: Natural or darkened Freijó + Granite (floral
Granite
Ita 2, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ita 2 - soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone, brass Dimensions: 25 (Ø) x 32 (H) Alva
Soapstone
Brota 1, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brota 1 - Soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: 28 (Ø) x 19 (H) ALVA
Soapstone
Brota 3, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brota 3 - Soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: 15 (Ø) x 40 (H) ALVA
Soapstone
Brota 2, Soapstone Vase by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brota 2 - Soapstone vase by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone Dimensions: 20 (Ø) x 30 (H) ALVA is a
Soapstone
Mais, Light Freijo Table, by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mais - Light Freijo table - by Alva Design Materials: Freijó wood Dimensions: 59 x 59 x 50 cm ALVA
Wood
Infinito Soapstone and Nickel Sculpture by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Infinito Soapstone and Nickel Sculpture by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone and nickel
Soapstone, Nickel
Infinito Soapstone and Brass Sculpture by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Finito Soapstone Sculpture by Alva Design Materials: Soapstone and nickel. Dimensions: Ø 18 x H
Soapstone, Nickel
Pola Bar by Alva Design, Contemporary Brazilian Design
By Alva Design
Located in New York, NY
Cupboard cabinet and Bar, the "Pola Bar" is made of MDF board with natural wood finish and three colors of lacquer (blue, yellow and woody), glass doors and brass hinges. The two ...
Wood, Lacquer
$2,300 / set
H 3.5 in W 2 in D 9.84 in
Wood Butterfly Hangers, Brazilian Contemporary Design, Alva Design
By Alva Design
Located in New York, NY
Landed on the wall like a butterfly, this hanger, besides being a beautiful decoration item, is always ready to hold clothes, bags and other objects from day to day. Models BO1, B...
Wood
Amparo Braúna and Bronze Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Braúna and Bronze Stool by Alva Design Materials: solid wood (Braúna) and cast bronze
Bronze
Amparo Freijó and Bronze Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Freijó and Bronze Stool by Alva Design Materials: solid wood (Freijó) and cast bronze
Bronze
Amparo Jequitibá and Iron Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Jequitibá and Iron Stool by Alva Design Materials: blackened solid wood (Jequitibá) and
Iron
Mais, Light Freijo Table with Tabs, by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mais - light freijo table with tabs - by Alva Design Materials: Natural or darkened freijó + glass
Granite
Mais, Dark Freijo Table with Tabs, by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mais - dark Freijo table with tabs - by Alva Design Materials: Natural or darkened Freijó + glass
Granite
A Set of 3 Leva, Tables by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
A Set of 3 Leva - tables by Alva Design Materials: Painted Metal, Stainless Steel Dimensions: 643 x
Metal, Stainless Steel
$9,100 / item
H 71.66 in W 55.52 in D 16.23 in
Glass Shelves "Cross" by Alva Design, Contemporary Brazilian Design
By Alva Design
Located in New York, NY
shelves. From this process came the final design of the shelf cross, which for its transparency
Glass, Wood
Amparo Jequitibá and Iron Tall Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Jequitibá and Iron Tall Stool by Alva Design Materials: blackened solid wood (Jequitibá
Iron
Amparo Freijó and Bronze Tall Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Freijó and Bronze Tall Stool by Alva Design Materials: solid wood (Freijó) and cast bronze
Bronze
Amparo Braúna and Bronze Tall Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Amparo Braúna and Bronze Tall Stool by Alva Design Materials: solid wood (Braúna) and cast bronze
Bronze
$1,200
H 13 in W 4 in D 3.5 in
“Embracing Nudes” Sculpture by Peggy Mach for Alva Museum Reproductions (AMR), 1
By Peggy Mach, Alva Museum Replicas, Inc.
Located in San Diego, CA
Striking modernist sculpture titled "Embracing Nudes", designed by Peggy Mach and produced by Alva
Marble
Mehraban Alva, Faro Kilim
Located in WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
Alva is an elegant cotton flatweave that features a fashionable pattern in pastel blushing hues
Cotton
Unavailable
H 31.5 in W 15.75 in D 17.72 in
Brutalist Minimal Dining Chair Black Wengue Wood, White Velvet Seat
By Hommes Studio
Located in Porto, PT
dining sets. Combining comfort and design, the Alva Chair is an ideal seating option that balances
Fabric, Wood, Wenge
Alvar Aalto Nesting Tables Model 90C & 90D, Artek, Late 20th Century
By Artek, Alvar Aalto
Located in Helsinki, Uusimaa
Nesting tables model 90C & 90D, designed by Alva Aalto, manufactured by Artek, Late 20th Century
Birch
Bo, Stool by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Bo - stool by Alva Design Materials: Metalic and wooden structure, leather seat, brass spheres
Metal, Brass
Bo, Bench by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Bo - Bench by Alva Design Materials: Metalic and wooden structure, leather seat, brass spheres
Metal, Brass
The Charles Dudouyt Coffee Table
Located in Banbury, GB
A fine carved and turned oak small circular table in the manner of Charles Dudouyt. The incised oak top on spinal corkscrew design column on triple ball feet. Polished lightly aged o...
Oak
Sasco Semi-Flush Mount Brass Light Fixture, Custom Finishes
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
The Sasco is a versatile custom-made solid brass and glass globe light fixture, which can be mounted on the ceiling or wall. Shown here in our factory brass, an uneven unfinished br...
Brass
Inez Modern Barstool or Counter Stool with Swivel
By Crump and Kwash
Located in Baltimore City, MD
Inez Stool by Crump and Kwash Carved solid wood seat and base / hand rubbed zero VOC oil finish / solid steel construction / 360 degree rotating seat top. Offered in barstool (30...
Bronze
$900 / item
H 33.08 in W 22.05 in D 22.05 in
Wing Chair by Simonini: Solid Wood, Caned Backrest, Modern Design
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
A study in proportion, softness, and structural grace. The Wing Collection is born from the pursuit of equilibrium, balancing structure and lightness, geometry and comfort, precisio...
Textile, Cane, Wood, Hardwood, Leather, Faux Leather
$10,084 / item
H 19.69 in W 70.87 in D 27.56 in
Custom Oak & Cream Bouclé Daybed by Fosfeen Handcrafted, Made to Order
Located in Plymouth, GB
A handcrafted oak and cream bouclé daybed from Fosfeen’s Sunday Collection. Made to order with full customisation available, including COM, finishes, and dimensions. The Sunday Dayb...
Bouclé, Oak, Fabric, Textile, Upholstery, Wood, Hardwood
$24,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 24.25 in W 78.5 in D 9.25 in
Clairtone Project G2 Series T11 Console Stereo System & Garrard Turntable
By Clairtone
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
On offer is a rare completely original Clairtone G2 Series Home Stereo System from 1966 featuring two distinct exotic wooden boxes one that houses the tuner and the turntable both pr...
Aluminum
Mexican Modern Coffee Table
Located in Houston, TX
Mexican Modern Coffee Table. This stunning Mexican mid century modern cocktail table, coffee table or low table has a boomerang shaped top with tapered legs and a beautifully decorat...
Shagreen, Walnut
Bertu Nightstands, Santa Fe Modern Nightstand, Maple
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Modern Nightstand - Santa Fe Collection is our newest design for 2025. It is made in the heart of Ohio with locally sourced wood. Each dresser is handmade in maple (or the wood ...
Maple
Crackle Textured Handmade Ceramic Mushroom Lamp, Blue
By Streicher Goods, Ethan Streicher
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Every mushroom lamp is hand-made and hand-painted by Ethan Streicher, the founder and designer behind the Streicher Goods brand in Brooklyn, NY. The lamp's silhouette is simple and c...
Brass
ShiLU Sconce
By Lumfardo Luminaires
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Part of Lumfardo Luminaries contemporary collection, the ShiLU Sconce is a fully Directional reading sconce crafted from patinated brass and steel hardware and fabric shade. Classic ...
Steel, Brass
Custom Made Oak and Velvet Bench by Kai Kristiansen
Located in London, England
Bench designed by Danish master Kai Kristiansen in the 1950s and now produced under license by Dagmar. Hand-made to order, this upholstered bench has a fumed and oiled oak frame. Th...
Mohair, Oak
$1,306 / item
H 34.26 in W 18.12 in D 20.87 in
Contemporary stained beech wood COM Silhouette dining chair by InsidherLand
By InsidherLand, Joana Santos Barbosa
Located in Maia, Porto
Silhouette is a surreal reminiscence of a woman’s sensual curves that arise designed in an eye-catching dining chair. The joint dimension of people and objects represented by severa...
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Amarante Mirror
By Project 213A
Located in Macieira de Sarnes, PT
Amarante Mirror Designed in 2024 by Project 213A The Amarante Mirror is trapez shaped and framed in solid wood. Crafted by Skilled artisans in Northern Portugal and finished in a g...
Mirror, Walnut
Charlotte Pedestal
By Josh Greene
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed by Josh Greene. Square oak pedestal.
Oak
Pair of Delord & Garrault Floor to Ceiling Lamps
By Garrault-Delord
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Pair of rare "Sol au plafond" (floor to ceiling) lamps, made of different section of metal tubes holding an enlightnen plexi globe. Adjustable height both at the top and bottom thank...
Metal, Chrome
$885Sale Price|20% Off
H 27.17 in W 16.54 in D 13.78 in
French Oak Bobbin Wood Three -Tiered Single Drawer Side Cabinet
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Trensacq, FR
Stylish oak bobbin wood side cabinet from mid-century France C1950. Beautifully turned and carved, medium oak, three-tiered side table with a single drawer in the style of Charles Du...
Oak
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.
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.
Find a collection of vintage Brazilian furniture on 1stDibs that includes chairs, sofas, tables and more.
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