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Fernando and Humberto Campana Brothers Vermelha Arm Chair by Edra in Gold

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Unique and iconic arm chair designed by the renowned Brazilian designers, Fernando and Humberto Campana, and made in Italy by Edra. This chair is made of metallic gold cord, iron and aluminum. The Vermelha lounge chair is included in the permanent collections of several museums including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. The last picture is from the Edra web site and shows the chair in the gold and silver colors. Retail price new is $14,900. Please contact us if you would like other shipping options. From the Edra web site: Wrap-around armchair with steel frame. Innovative chair, created by the overlapping of hundreds of twists of about five hundred meters of special rope with acrylic core, on the base frame. 500 meters of rope create the volume of the chair. The casing is woven directly onto the structure of painted tubular steel, which in turn is secured to the legs of solid aluminum. Subsequent layers of twine create a sort of padding. The ability of experienced hands to weave this rope with acrylic core and cotton cover is fundamental. It takes more than forty-five hours of work just for the weaving. From the MOMA web site: Made of iron, aluminum, and cord, the Vermelha Chair was inspired by materials and traditions of Brazilian weaving. Thread was intertwined to form the ropes, which were then hand-woven into upholstery. “We always say that first comes the material, then the form, and finally we elaborate the function of the product by studying its ergonomics, limitations, and capabilities,” explained Fernando and Humberto Campana, brothers and design partners. “The streets of São Paulo are a sort of laboratory for our designs. Whenever we need inspiration, we rely on the chaos and beauty of the city we live in.” The brothers purchased a large bunch of rope from a street stall and brought it back to their studio. They carefully studied the chaotic shape that the construction of the ropes formed when piled on a table. “At that moment we both looked at each other and almost simultaneously remarked, this is the chair we want to build. It is a representation of Brazil in its beautiful chaos and deconstructiveness.”

Creator:

Edra (Manufacturer),Campana Brothers (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 31 in (78.74 cm)Depth: 28 in (71.12 cm)Seat Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Cord,Woven

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1990-1999

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1990s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Excellent vintage condition. Some small nicks to the bottoms of the legs.

Seller Location:

Chesterfield, NJ

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2670338888992

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The Campana Brothers are among Brazil’s foremost contemporary furniture designers. Inspired by their country’s vernacular culture, Humberto and Fernando Campana combine everyday objects in unexpected ways, often waste materials like rope, cardboard, plastic tubing, and aluminum wire, to make their singular creations. Their designs have been manufactured by such companies as Alessi, Swarovski and Cappellini. And they have received numerous honors, including being named Designer of the Year both at Design Miami in 2008, and by Maison & Objet in Paris in 2012.

Humberto Campana was born in Rio Claro in 1953 and earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of São Paulo. Fernando was born in 1961 in Brotas, and graduated from the São Paulo School of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. The brothers started working together in 1983, crafting furniture using their signature method of adaptive reuse. Their pieces frequently refer to Brazilian social and cultural traditions and entities. Among these are the country’s favelas, or shantytowns, that have grown up around major cities. An homage to the resourcefulness with which the residents of São Paulo’s favelas make use of the materials at hand, repurposing cast-off objects in ingenious designs and constructions, their Favela armchair is made of cast-off strips of wood (the first one was made from discarded slats from a fruit market), which are glued and nailed together seemingly at random. The end result, however, is a compact, solid and well-proportioned chair.

By 1997, some of the Campanas’ pieces were being produced and sold in Italy, including the Edra Vermelha armchair, constructed of cord handwoven around a steel frame. In 1998, the brothers became the first Brazilian designers to have their work exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today their furniture is included in MoMA’s permanent collection and in those of numerous other major institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Vitra Design Museum.

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