Antique Contemporary Brazilian Wooden Rounded Table, Restauro #1

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Antique Contemporary Brazilian Wooden Rounded Table, Restauro #1

About the Item

This antique contemporary wooden rounded table, Restauro #1 (restoration #1) is an antique Brazilian walnut table rescued and restored with one red painted steel rounded structure for a foot, in which is one 3D printed small statue. Since this a design intervention in an antique piece of furniture, this Table is unique. The antique contemporary table, Restauro #1 (Restoration #1) is part of the small collection from the Projeto Restauro. Projeto Restauro (The restoration project): This project intends to bring a new perspective to Brazilian furniture design by poking at the very notion of Brazilian cultural identity or the so called "Brazilianness". The restoration consists on identifying narratives and discourses about Brazilian culture and identity throughout the furniture design field just to take them to further questioning. Such operation exposes what traces were included into the official narrative and the ones excluded. And it's on the realm of exclusion that the project thrives and collects the features for questioning, at the same time, both the naturalized Brazilian culture and identity and their replication in the furniture design field. Restauro #1: In this first phase we pointed at the naturalization of slavery in Brazil, dating back centuries ago. This feature of our society has informed the whole world through paintings, photographs and images in general. Eventually these images would come back to Brazil as a representation of a peaceful and idyllic society. History and sociology, however, shows us something totally different. In order to start the debate, we took a photograph of an enslaved black woman with a white child on her back and 3D printed a small statue of her. After buying broken colonial furniture from antique dealers and replacing its missing parts with rationalist modern forms, we placed the woman. This single action interferes with the furniture and creates an expected feature that draws the attention to the details. This feature replaces the wilfully forgotten bodies and people into the Brazilian culture's narrative and simultaneously into Brazilian design. This is the way we found, so far, to use furniture design as a critical means.

Creator:
Cadu Silva (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 47.25 in (120 cm)Depth: 47.25 in (120 cm)
Style:
Colonial Revival (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Steel,Wood,Painted,Varnished
Place of Origin:
Brazil
Period:
21st Century
Date of Manufacture:
2019
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Although this piece of furniture has been through a careful restoration process, minor scratches and sings from time and usage might be present.
Seller Location:
Sao Caetano do Sul, BR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3207115964551