Strick House Daybed by Amir Farr
About the Item
- Creator:Oscar Niemeyer (Designer),Amir Farr (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 74 in (187.96 cm)Depth: 38 in (96.52 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1963
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. In original condition, but shows well. Some minor finish loss and surface rust to steel legs. We can provide cushion upholstery for an additional fee.
- Seller Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU80027654153
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer made modernist architecture sexy. In his signature designs, such as those for the planned capital city of Brasília, Niemeyer created a distinctively buoyant architectural vocabulary of sweeping curves, flowing lines and organic forms (attributes that also characterize his seductive furniture). As expressions of faith in the power of modern architecture and design to foster progress, Niemeyer’s buildings have a kind of heroic poetry.
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was born to an upper-middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro. (His father was a graphic designer.) While in graduate school, Niemeyer began working for Lúcio Costa, one of the few modernist architects working in Brazil in the 1930s. Niemeyer would be assigned to the design team for a new building in Rio for the Ministry of Education and Health. The famed Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier was hired as a consultant on the project, and through him Niemeyer would absorb many lessons in bringing a sense of structural lightness to large buildings — though he would never embrace the geometric forms espoused by Le Corbusier and the members of the Bauhaus.
“I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man,” Niemeyer would write in his memoirs. “I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves.”
Nowhere would Niemeyer demonstrate his love of curvature more expressively and elegantly than in his designs for the principal buildings for Brasília, a project begun in 1956. The dramatic Congressional Palace features two stark towers flanked by a domed structure and a bowl-shaped edifice, for the upper and lower legislative houses. He placed the Palácio da Alvorada (the presidential residence) on a small peninsula jutting into a lake, so that the sequence of parabolic columns on its facade casts a mirror image on the water. Niemeyer’s grandest achievement was the city’s cathedral, a stunning composition of 16 arched vertical supports with tinted-glass interstices.
Four years after Brasília was completed, in 1960, Brazil’s elected government was overthrown in a military coup. Niemeyer, a member of the Communist party, was harassed continually by the junta. He left the country and did not return until democracy was restored, in 1985.
While in exile, in the early 1970s, Niemeyer began collaborating on furniture designs with his daughter, Anna Maria Niemeyer. Their best known pieces are seating furniture — the Alta lounge chair and ottoman and the Rio rocking chaise, which have flowing bases made of sheets of lacquered wood or stainless steel, share the aesthetics of Niemeyer’s architecture.
The Alta’s deep, oversized seat pads nod — much like the chair designs of Niemeyer’s countryman Sergio Rodrigues — to the Brazilian penchant for long, languorous conversations. Examples of both designs are priced at about $20,000, depending on age, condition and materials. As you will see on these pages, Oscar Niemeyer’s furniture designs are sleek, sculptural, comfortable and elegant — as well as a compact emblem of the work of one of the great architects of our time.
Find vintage Oscar Niemeyer lounge chairs, tables and other furniture on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Brooklyn, NY
- Return PolicyThis item cannot be returned.
- Bentwood and Steel Settee by Kho Liang LiBy Kho Liang Ie, ArtifortLocated in Brooklyn, NYStriking and rare design by this important Dutch designer.Category
Vintage 1960s French Settees
MaterialsBentwood
- New York City Long Bench by Laverne InternationalLocated in Brooklyn, NYSleek, modern Universal Style bench in chromed and enameled steel with leather upholstery. Design by Kelly, Littell, al katavolos.Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Benches
MaterialsLeather
- Milo Baughman Low Walnut Long Bench or Coffee TableBy Milo Baughman, Thayer CogginLocated in Brooklyn, NYC. 1960, simple architectural design energized with exaggerated proportion, in a modern interpretation of a classic Japanese chabudai. Retains paper Thayer Coggin label to underside.Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsWalnut
- Pair Karl Springer Style 'Souffle' Ottoman PoufsBy Karl SpringerLocated in Brooklyn, NYc. 1980, American, pleated upholstered seat on solid brass base.Category
Vintage 1980s American Ottomans and Poufs
MaterialsBrass
- Craftsman Studio BenchLocated in Brooklyn, NYElegant and expertly handmade bench in solid white oak exhibits great finesse. Decorative exposed peg construction and wonderful framing of wood grain shows expert studio skill. Unsi...Category
20th Century American Benches
MaterialsOak
- Milo Baughman Rosewood Long Bench or TableBy Milo Baughman, Thayer CogginLocated in Brooklyn, NYLow bench/table in highly figured book-matched rosewood veneer on three ebonized wood sleigh legs. For Thayer-Coggin Furniture, circa 1960sCategory
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsRosewood
- Daybed by Rachel WhitereadBy Rachel WhitereadLocated in Jersey City, NJMuch of the work by British artist Rachel Whiteread studies the void or empty space surrounding a given object, and the artist designed "Daybed" with the same interests in mind. This...Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Daybeds
MaterialsBeech, Wool
- Pepino Daybed by OwlLocated in Geneve, CHPepino daybed by Owl. Dimensions: L 210 x W 70 x H 46 cm. Materials: Plywood base, upholstered. La Pepino is a collection of only seating, wh...Category
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Daybeds
MaterialsUpholstery, Plywood
- Beige Minimal Daybed by Kristina Dam StudioLocated in Geneve, CHBeige Minimal daybed by Kristina Dam Studio. Materials: Solid Oak with oil Treatment, Beige Linen. Also available in other colors. Dimensions: 70 x ...Category
2010s Danish Modern Daybeds
MaterialsLinen, Oak
- Light Brown Minimal Daybed by Kristina Dam StudioLocated in Geneve, CHLight brown minimal daybed by Kristina Dam Studio. Materials: solid oak with oil treatment, light brown aniline Nubuck. Also available in other color...Category
2010s Danish Modern Daybeds
MaterialsLeather, Oak
- Modern Daybed or BenchLocated in Los Angeles, CAElegant modernist design. Quality made wood construction Architectural steel base Walnut rails Forest green suede upholstery Original vintage condition Minor wear / patina co...Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Benches
MaterialsSteel
- DOOQ Organic Marlon Daybed I, Teal Kvadrat by P. Franceschini, w=150By DOOQ, Pietro FranceschiniLocated in Lisbon, PTWhen pure geometry meets soft curves, something sculptural and sensual comes out. A Fine dialogue between oversized legs and clean lines takes place in this piece upholstered in moha...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Organic Modern Daybeds
MaterialsBouclé, Velvet