Set of 12 'Del Rey' Dining Room Chairs Designer Jorge Zalszupin 1960 Brazil

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Set of 12 'Del Rey' Dining Room Chairs Designer Jorge Zalszupin 1960 Brazil

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Set of 12 dinning room chairs 'Del Rey' by Jorge Zalszupin, Brazil, 1960. The restoration process only needed refinishing, which was done by our team at the finest details and preserving the originality from that period. The restoration process only needed refinishing and reupholster, which was done by our team at the finest details and preserving the originality from that period. Jorge Zalszupin (1 June 1922 – 17 August 2020) was a Polish-Brazilian architect and designer noted for modern design. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. In the 1950s Zalszupin founded L'Atelier, a furniture design manufacturer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Zalszupin's one-off designs were included by Oscar Niemeyer in the Palácio da Alvorada and the Palácio do Planalto. In order for clients to accept his bold ideas, he first had to build his own house. Hence, designing furniture that suited its architecture was a natural consequence. The available woods, the post-war eagerness for the new and the developmental wave in Brazil at that time were ideal conditions for his creations to be very well accepted by the most open minds. Further on, that furniture with pure lines, exquisite execution and noble materials, comfortable and timeless, was industrialized. Its brand L'Atelier spread throughout most of Brazil and its showrooms were benchmarks of modernity. In Brasilia, in the 60s and 70s, there was no public building that did not have its mark. At the factory, a first-world structure mobilized designers, architects, engineers, artisans and a whole range of professionals who collaborated from the research of materials to the final, finished and commercialized product.

Creator:
Jorge Zalszupin (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 25.2 in (64 cm)Depth: 25.2 in (64 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 12
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Imbuia,Leather
Place of Origin:
Brazil
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1960
Condition:
Refinished. Minor fading.
Seller Location:
Curitiba, BR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU7448231699272

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Jorge Zalszupin

Just as emigrant Europeans — from Kem Weber and Paul Frankl to Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — helped establish modernist design and architecture in the United States, so too did many of their peers foster the new design aesthetic in Brazil in the middle decades of the 20th century. Along with architect Lina Bo Bardi (from Italy) and Joaquim Tenreiro (from Portugal) — both of whom helped popularize Brazilian modern design and influenced today's generation of Brazilian designers — there was Jorge Zalszupin, who arrived from Poland in 1949 and created consistently sleek and elegant chairs, tables and case pieces using the South American country’s vibrantly grained tropical hardwoods.

Zalszupin was born in Warsaw (his given first name is Jerzy) and went on to study architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Bucharest, Romania, graduating in 1945. Zalszupin moved to Paris but found few opportunities in the postwar City of Light. He was impressed by articles on the work of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer that he saw in the André Bloc–edited magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (Architecture Today). And after sailing to South America, Zalszupin went to work with his fellow Pole and architect Luciano Korngold in São Paulo. Zalszupin began designing furniture as part of his architectural commissions and created several pieces for Niemeyer for use in the new capital city, Brasília. He opened his own design and manufacturing firm, L’Atelier, in 1959.

While Zalszupin cannot be said to have had a signature style, his furniture designs all share a characteristic simplicity and purity of line and form. His work is often compared to that of Danish designers, most especially in their shared commitment to quality construction. He was a master of many materials: travertine marble for tabletops, slung leather for seating, man-made fabrics for upholstery and — his forte — highly figured woods such as jacaranda and rosewood. The latter plays prominently in two of Zalszupin’s best-known lounge chairs: the Brasiliana, with its austere, angular wood frame, and the Presidencial, with its curved seating shell and slatted backrest. Both chairs feature deep cushions and generous proportions in deference to the Brazilian proclivity for long and languid conversations. Yet both pieces — like all Zalszupin designs — possess a striking, tailored grace that would be perfect in any environment.

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