Pau Brazil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Archival Pigment
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Archival Pigment
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Hardwood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Hardwood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Upholstery, Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Marble, Metal
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Hardwood, Fabric
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Hardwood
Vintage 1940s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Fabric, Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Iron
1990s Brazilian Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Wood
2010s Brazilian Organic Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures
Other
2010s Brazilian Modern Center Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Fabric, Hardwood
20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Modern Console Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Chairs
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Wood, Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
Recent Sales
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Other Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Other Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Art Deco Side Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Art Deco Side Tables
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Benches
Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Mohair, Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Velvet, Hardwood
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Benches
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Glass, Hardwood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Brass, Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Settees
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Benches
Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Upholstery, Wood
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Armchairs
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Wood
20th Century Brazilian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Walnut, Plywood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Cotton, Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Brass, Iron
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Velvet, Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Console Tables
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Benches
Metal
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Dining Room Sets
Wood, Fabric, Glass
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Center Tables
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Lounge Chairs
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Glass
Vintage 1950s Brazilian End Tables
Wood, Glass
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Cabinets
Wood
Vintage 1960s Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Jewelry Boxes
Bronze
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Side Tables
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Cabinets
Brass
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Sofas
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Desks and Writing Tables
Marble
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Side Tables
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Desks
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Benches
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Benches
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Benches
Vintage 1960s Brazilian End Tables
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Glass
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Archival Pigment
2010s Dutch Modern Side Tables
Resin
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Table Lamps
Bronze
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal
2010s Table Lamps
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Polish Organic Modern Floor Mirrors and Fu...
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s Belgian Minimalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Cement, Limestone
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Pigment
Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Armchairs
Wood
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Archival Pigment
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Archival Pigment
Vintage 1940s American Mission Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
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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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