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Sergio Rodrigues for OCA Vintage Bar Cart

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H 27.5 in W 15 in D 27 in

Sergio Rodrigues for OCA Vintage Bar Cart

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A lovely vintage exotic dark grain wood serving cart, tea cart, or bar cart from Brazil by Sergio Rodrigues for OCA with two removable red melamine trays that slip easily in and out ...

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Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Serving Pieces

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Wood

Pair of Sergio Rodrigues Kilin Lounge Chairs for Oca, Brazil, 1973

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H 26.78 in W 26.78 in D 25.6 in

Pair of Sergio Rodrigues Kilin Lounge Chairs for Oca, Brazil, 1973

By Sergio Rodrigues, Oca

Located in Woudrichem, NL

Beautiful pair of Sergio Rodrigues Kilin lounge chairs for Oca, Brazil, 1973 in solid Imbuia wood.

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Vintage 1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Imbuia

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H 64.97 in W 44.1 in D 16.54 in

Set of Two Bookcases by Sergio Rodrigues for Oca Brasil, 1960s

By Sergio Rodrigues, Oca

Located in Hellouw, NL

An impressive set of two bookcases by Sergio Rodrigues for Oca Brasil, 1960s. This set is made of Peroba wood, plywood, and brass. The bookcases have a very nice structure of wooden ...

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Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Bookcases

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Wood

Sergio Rodrigues for OCA Rosewood Leather Armchairs

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H 28.5 in W 23.5 in D 22 in

Sergio Rodrigues for OCA Rosewood Leather Armchairs

By Sergio Rodrigues

Located in Pasadena, TX

A pair of classic Jacaranda Rosewood chairs by Sergio Rodrigues with distressed leather upholstery.

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Steel

Sergio Rodrigues for Oca Solid Brazilian rosewood table

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H 19 in W 23 in D 23 in

Sergio Rodrigues for Oca Solid Brazilian rosewood table

Located in Palm Springs, CA

A really interesting Solid Rosewood designed table by Sergio Rodrigues for Oca of Brazil. The legs are solid rosewood as well.

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Vintage 1970s Brazilian Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Rosewood

Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table in Hardwood & Chrome by Sergio Rodrigues, Brazil

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H 14.18 in W 59.06 in D 26.78 in

Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table in Hardwood & Chrome by Sergio Rodrigues, Brazil

By Sergio Rodrigues

Located in New York, NY

This is the "Eleh" model from the "Arcos" series, designed by Sergio Rodrigues for the Oca firm in Brazil. The “Eleh” coffee table has a beautiful minimalistic design bringing el...

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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Brass

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H 15.75 in W 15.75 in D 15.75 in

Original Brazilian Design Mocho Stools by Sergio Rodrigues for OCA, 1950s

By Sergio Rodrigues, Oca

Located in Renens, CH

Sergio Rodrigues set the standard for Modern furniture in Brazil during the 1950s, his works have become a reference for Brazilian design, which often use indigenous wood species suc...

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Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Stools

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Hardwood

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H 18.12 in Dm 28.35 in

Mid-Century Modern Round Coffee table, by Susi Aczel and Martin Eisler, 1953.

By Martin Eisler, Forma Brazil

Located in New York, NY

A round coffee table in Caviúna designed by Martin Eisler and Susi Aczel for Forma S.A. Móveis e Objetos de Arte. The piece refers to a furniture typology common in the mid-century a...

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Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Glass, Wood, Hardwood

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Sergio Rodrigues Oca Brazil For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic sergio rodrigues oca Brazil available at 1stDibs. Each sergio rodrigues oca Brazil for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, animal skin and hardwood. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect sergio rodrigues oca Brazil — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A sergio rodrigues oca Brazil, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Sergio Rodrigues, Oca and Meia Pataca each produced at least one beautiful sergio rodrigues oca Brazil that is worth considering.

How Much is a Sergio Rodrigues Oca Brazil?

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Sergio Rodrigues for sale on 1stDibs

The prolific architect and designer Sergio Rodrigues is often called the "father of modern Brazilian design," but it is the second adjective in that phrase that deserves emphasis: Rodrigues’s great achievement was to create furniture in a style that captured the spirit, character and personality of his country.

Modernity came slowly to 20th-century Brazil, politically and culturally. The nation finally realized genuine constitutional democracy in 1945, ushering in a new, progressive era in the arts. More often than not, the luxurious furnishings of that time and place, with their gleaming wood, soft leathers and inviting shapes, share a sensuous, uniquely Brazilian quality that distinguishes them from the more rectilinear output of American mid-century modernists and Scandinavian makers of the same era. Until that time in Brazil, heavy furniture based on historical European models had been the norm.

In the late 1940s, designer Joaquim Tenreiro introduced sleek, minimalist chairs and cabinets; José Zanine Caldas, now best known for his later artisanal work, created plywood furnishings for mass production; the Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, a former editor for the Gio Ponti-founded magazine Domus — and a furniture designer with talent, imagination and a social conscience — set up shop in São Paulo, designing elegant, flexible chairs set on slim metal frames.

This was the heady scene into which Rodrigues, the son of an artistically prominent Rio de Janeiro family, arrived after graduating in 1952 from the national university. He moved to Curitiba and helped establish the furniture manufacturer Móveis Artesanal with Italian designer Carlo Hauner and Austrian architect Martin Eisler — as well as Carlo’s brother Ernesto Hauner — which eventually rebranded as Forma. Later, Rodrigues relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he founded Oca in 1955, a company that would become the preeminent maker and retailer of modernist furniture in Brazil.

When architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer were tasked in 1956 with the whirlwind project to plan, design and build the new capital, Brasília, in five years, they used Rodrigues’s early chairs, with their softly-contoured lines and caned seats and backrests, to furnish many of the buildings.

Rodrigues would realize the true expression of his talents in — and garner international awards and acclaim with — his Mole chair of 1957. The word mole means "soft" in Portuguese, but can be interpreted as "easygoing" or even "listless." The chair, which is also known as the Sheriff chair, features a sturdy, generously proportioned frame of the native South American hardwood jacaranda, upholstered with overstuffed leather pads that flap like saddlebags across the arms, seat, and backrest.

Rodrigues's Mole chair invites sprawling — perfect for the social milieu of the bossa nova and caipirinha cocktails; where a languorous afternoon spent chatting and joking is the apex of enjoyment. The seat won first prize at the IV Concorso Internazionale del Mobile in Cantù, Italy, in 1961, and ISA Bergamo acquired the rights to manufacture a modified version of Rodrigues’s original design.

In 1963, Rodrigues established a shop called Meia-Pataca, which sold simpler and more affordable furniture he had designed, such as his Tonico seating, which was intended for student housing.

Most of the estimated 1,200 armchairs, sofas, tables, storage cabinets and dining tables Rodrigues created in his long career are imbued, in one way or another, with the air of robust relaxation that defines the Mole chair. He was a designer who was true to the temperament of his people.

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A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

On the Origins of Brazil

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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