Tapestrie by Kennedy Bahia
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jolie tapisserie par Kennedy Bahia
Vintage 1970s Brazilian Modern Tapestries
Wool
Tapestrie by Kennedy Bahia
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jolie tapisserie par Kennedy Bahia
Wool
Kennedy Bahia Brazilian Modern Wall Tapestry, 1980s
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Miami, FL
Woven wall tapestry by Brazilian textile artist Kennedy Bahia circa 1980. Hummingbird, butterflies and flowers.
Textile
Mid-Century Abstract Brazil Textile Art Tapestry by Kennedy Bahia, circa 1960's
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Rare textile art tapestry by Brazilian artist Kennedy Bahia. This piece had remained rolled up for over 50 years prior to pictures being taken for this listing.
Wool
Jardin Onirique Wool Wall Tapestry, Signed, Circa 1960, 102 x 133 cm
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in PARIS, FR
Kennedy Bahia (1929–2005) Wall Tapestry, c. 1960 This vibrant wool tapestry by Kennedy Bahia, signed at the bottom left, features the artist’s iconic Jardin Onirique (Dream Garden) t...
Wool
Multicolored Foliage Wall Tapestry, Wool, Signed, Circa 1960
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in PARIS, FR
Kennedy Bahia (1929–2005) Wall Tapestry "Multicolored Foliage", c. 1960 This vibrant wool tapestry by Kennedy Bahia, signed at the bottom left, is a joyful example of the artist’s si...
Wool, Cotton
Brazilian tapestrie by VAC
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jolie tapisserie par VAC : Valdivino Alves da Conceição.
Wool
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'Dreamscape', Bolivia, Brazil, California, Sao Paulo Biennale, UNESCO
By Mario Cespedes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
./ Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1989- Blinder Fine Arts/ Santa Monica, CA. 1987- Azevedo Gallery/ San Diego, CA. 1986- Prestige Gallery/ Palm Desert, CA. 1983- Del...
Gold Leaf
"Liliana" Large original color serigraph
By Mario Cespedes
Located in San Francisco, CA
./ Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1989 Blinder Fine Arts/ Santa Monica, CA. 1987 Azevedo Gallery/ San Diego, CA. 1986 Prestige Gallery/ Palm Desert, CA. 1983 Del...
Screen
Untitled, Two Women
By Mario Cespedes
Located in San Francisco, CA
./ Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1989 Blinder Fine Arts/ Santa Monica, CA. 1987 Azevedo Gallery/ San Diego, CA. 1986 Prestige Gallery/ Palm Desert, CA. 1983 Del...
Mixed Media
Patrick Kennedy Bahia Abstraction Tapestry
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Atlanta, GA
Kennedy Bahia (1929-2005) Patrick Maderos Kennedy took the professional pseudonym of Kennedy Bahia as his artwork related to the flora and fauna area of the Amazonian jungle of Ba...
Wool
Kennedy Bahia. Polychrome tapestry, c. 1960
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in PARIS, FR
Kennedy Bahia (1929-2005) Tapisserie polychrome , c. 1960 Signé/ Laine 130 x 100 cm This tapestry by Kennedy Bahia, dating from the 1960s, is a remarkable work for its composition a...
Wool
Kennedy Bahia Large Scale Brazilian Modern Wall Tapestry
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Miami, FL
Large scale woven wall tapestry by Brazilian textile artist Kennedy Bahia.
Textile
Kennedy Bahia Brazilian Modern Wall Tapestry, 1980s
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Miami, FL
Woven wall tapestry by Brazilian textile artist Kennedy Bahia circa 1980. Fish with sea plants.
Textile
Patrick Kennedy Bahia Tapestry of Bird and Flowers
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Atlanta, GA
Kennedy Bahia (1929-2005) Patrick Maderos Kennedy took the professional pseudonym of Kennedy Bahia as his artwork related to the flora and fauna area of the Amazonian jungle of Ba...
Wool
Kennedy Bahia Large Scale Brazilian Modern Wall Tapestry, 1960s
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Miami, FL
Born Patrick Maderos Kennedy Dito, in 1929, in Valparaiso - Chile, Kennedy Bahia was a mining engineer in his country.
Textile
Mid-Century Modern South American Wall Art Tapestry by Kennedy Bahia
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed in bottom left corner, Kennedy Bahia. Kennedy Bahia was born Maderos Patrick Kennedy in 1929 in Valparaiso, Chile.
Wool
Mid-Century Brazilian Modern Woven Wall Tapestry, 1960s
By Kennedy Bahia
Located in Miami, FL
Brazilian mid-century modern woven wall tapestry using twine and felt from the 1960s.
Fabric
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.
Whether you hang them behind your bed as a dazzling alternative to a headboard or over the sofa as a large-scale focal point in the living room, vintage tapestries can introduce an array of textures and colors to any space in your home.
Woven wall hangings haven’t consistently enjoyed the popularity or earned the highbrow status that other types of wall decorations have over the years, at least not since the 1970s, which was somewhat of a heyday for tapestries. Today, however, these tactile works of art are seeing a renaissance, as modern weavers are forging new paths in the medium while the demand for antique and vintage tapestries continues to grow.
“We are drawn to texture in environments, and we see tapestries as a subtle layer of soft ornament,” says Lauren Larson of the New York design duo Material Lust. Indeed, and a lot of opportunity comes along when decorating with this distinctive brand of soft ornament.
Think of wall hangings as paintings created by hand with fabric instead of oil or watercolors. If you’re not simply securing your treasure to a wall with nails, pushpins or Velcro, tapestries can be stretched over a frame, used to create a canopy in a cozy living-room corner, hung from a rod or placed inside a shadowbox. And because this kind of textile art is hundreds of years old, options abound with respect to subjects and designs.
For richly detailed depictions of landscapes and garden scenes, look to antique Chinese tapestries and Japanese tapestries. Aubusson tapestries are ornate wall hangings manufactured in central France that are also characterized by romantic portrayals of nature. For weavers of mid-century modern tapestries, as well as those working in textile arts today, the styles and subject matter are too numerous to mention, with artists exploring experimental shapes, bold colors and provocative abstract designs.
Antique, new and vintage tapestries can make a room feel warm and welcoming — find yours on 1stDibs now.