Sofa and Two Armchairs by Jorge Zalszupin for L'Atelier

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Sofa and Two Armchairs by Jorge Zalszupin for L'Atelier

About the Item

Three piece suite by Jorge Zalszupin for L`Atelier, 1950s, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This is the first time that we`ve come across the whole suite... We`ve seen the chairs a few times but never the sofa with the trademark 'ribs' along the back.

Not only is this a great looking suite from the front, we think it looks so good from the back that we have used it as a room divider.

Jorge Zalszupin started architecture in Romania where he had fled after the invasion of Poland by the German army. When World War II ended, he went to live in Northern France where he participated in the housing reconstruction programme. In 1949, he immigrated to Brazil and worked in Luciano Korngold’s architectural office until he could open his open studio in partnership with Jose Gugliota.

To promote and showcase his designs and manufacturing capabilities, Zalszupin built his own house and furnished it with his own furniture. The clean lines combined with his organic forms were an unqualified success. After receiving several orders to design furniture for his clients, he founded a partnership with some cabinet makers and in 1959 established L’Atelier which initially made furniture with a design appropriate to both office and residential use. During this period, the architect Julio Roberto Katinsky collaborated in the work of L’Atelier. The company subsequently focused more on the production of office furniture and supplied the pieces for the lobbies of the international Airport in Sao Paulo having also manufactured the check-in counters. In contrast to his organic architectural designs which reject the “Bauhausian Rationalism,” Zalszupin’s furniture shows strong influences of modern constructive designs from Scandinavia.

The company L’Atelier, had two consecutive stores in Sao Paulo, and in 1970 was sold to the Forsa Corporation which already owned the iron fittings manufacturer Laminacao, Brazil, the plastics company Hevea and the computer manufacturer Labo. Zalszupin was promoted to Product Research & Development Director across all of those companies and founded an advisory firm where the designers Oswaldo Mellone from Paulo Jorge Pedreira and Lillian Weimberg worked. Working across four different industries made the Forsa design team a true creation laboratory which took advantage of the available techniques in all of the industries. L’Atelier, which up to that time used only wood and metal in furniture structure, began presenting plastic products, developed by Hevea. Hence, there appeared the Putzkits line for medicine cabinets, tools and accessories for sewing and painting which developed into the office partitioning section of the company. L’Atelier even extended its production line to trash cans, ashtrays, buckets of rice cubes, and modulater elements that could be stacked up, designed by Joe Colombo. Other products were the Hille chair and arm chair with a Polypropylene shell by Robin Day.

L’Atelier furnished, amongst other important places, the Legislative Assembly of the state of Sao Paulo.

Dimensions:
Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 96.46 in (245 cm)Depth: 33.47 in (85 cm)Seat Height: 15.36 in (39 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Rosewood
Place of Origin:
Brazil
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
Good, recently reupholstered. Minor wear fully consistent with vintage.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 7841stDibs: U0804128404387