Unique Hand Signed Campana Brothers Sideboard Aquario Prototype Glass and Wood

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Unique Hand Signed Campana Brothers Sideboard Aquario Prototype Glass and Wood

About the Item

Prototype sideboard designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana in 2016. This is the first piece ever made and is hand signed. Manufactured in Spain. The Campana brothers chose the colored glass to give the impression of a fish tank. The cuboid Aquário buffet is built from either ash or pine wood, with irregularly shaped holes cut into its surfaces. These openings are sealed by sections of the glass, allowing views through the furniture piece. Transparent shelves are installed behind the four square cabinet doors to help allow light through. External panels and doors are in green or blue glass, veneered in natural ash or pine stained in grey. Legs in solid natural ash or pine stained in grey. Interior shelves in green or blue glass. Veneered in Oberflex. Steel tubular painted (beige or dark grey) internal structure. Materials: ashwood Coloured glass Interior shelves made of glass Available in two colors. Dimensions: D 182 cm x W 48 cm x H 76 cm D 71 in x W 19 in x H 30 in Production delay: 8 weeks. About the designers: Humberto Campana 1953 and Fernando Campana 1961 are Brazilian designers. In 1983, the two brothers teamed up to make furniture made of ordinary materials including scrap and waste products such as cardboard, rope, cloth and wood scraps, plastic tubes and aluminium wire. About BD Barcelona: Accompanied with artisanal processes instead of mass production, their products always have more proximity to art than Industrial Design. Characterised by superior quality, short-series productions (and on occasion limited editions), and unique pieces due to crafted manufacturing. In the 1970s, BD pleasantly surprised by editing Gaudí’s furniture for his famous buildings and in the early 90’s, BD again astounded by introducing an exclusive first collection of furniture and lamps designed by Dalí. Recently the collections and designers with an accentuated artistic profile like Jaime Hayon and Doshi Levien, continue to point the way where design and art meet together. Design meets Art. Since 1972.

Creator:
BD Barcelona Design (Manufacturer),Campana Brothers (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 71.66 in (182 cm)Depth: 18.9 in (48 cm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Ash,Glass
Place of Origin:
Spain
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2016
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Prototype - Hand Singned.
Seller Location:
Barcelona, ES
Reference Number:
Seller: BD.CB.AC.AS1stDibs: LU1427222032862

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Campana Brothers

The Campana Brothers were among Brazil’s foremost contemporary furniture designers. Inspired by their country’s vernacular culture, Humberto and Fernando Campana (b. 1953; 1961–2022) combined everyday objects in unexpected ways — often waste materials like rope, cardboard, plastic tubing, and aluminum wire — to make their singular chairs, decor, lighting and other items. Their designs have been manufactured by such companies as Alessi, Swarovski and Cappellini. And they 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 Campana 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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