Mod Century Brazil

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the mod century Brazil you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each mod century Brazil for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, paper and rosewood. Find 7 options for an antique or vintage mod century Brazil now, or shop our selection of 4 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect mod century Brazil — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. Each mod century Brazil bearing mid-century modern or modern hallmarks is very popular. A well-made mod century Brazil has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Domingos Tótora, Percival Lafer and Sergio Rodrigues are consistently popular.

A mod century Brazil can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $7,400, while the lowest priced sells for $1,100 and the highest can go for as much as $35,000.

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.