Brazilian Console Tables
More often than not, vintage mid-century Brazilian furniture designs, with their gleaming wood, soft leathers and inviting shapes, share a sensuous, unique quality that distinguishes them from the more rectilinear output of American and Scandinavian makers of the same era.
Commencing in the 1940s and '50s, a group of architects and designers transformed the local cultural landscape in Brazil, merging the modernist vernacular popular in Europe and the United States with the South American country's traditional techniques and indigenous materials.
Key mid-century influencers on Brazilian furniture design include natives Oscar Niemeyer, Sergio Rodrigues and José Zanine Caldas as well as such European immigrants as Joaquim Tenreiro, Jean Gillon and Jorge Zalszupin. These creators frequently collaborated; for instance, Niemeyer, an internationally acclaimed architect, commissioned many of them to furnish his residential and institutional buildings.
The popularity of Brazilian modern furniture has made household names of these designers and other greats. Their particular brand of modernism is characterized by an émigré point of view (some were Lithuanian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, and Italian), a preference for highly figured indigenous Brazilian woods, a reverence for nature as an inspiration and an atelier or small-production mentality.
Hallmarks of Brazilian mid-century design include smooth, sculptural forms and the use of native woods like rosewood, jacaranda and pequi. The work of designers today exhibits many of the same qualities, though with a marked interest in exploring new materials (witness the Campana Brothers' stuffed-animal chairs) and an emphasis on looking inward rather than to other countries for inspiration.
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2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Teak
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Teak
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Hardwood
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Cane, Teak, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Console Tables
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Stainless Steel, Steel
2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Stainless Steel, Steel
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Rosewood
Late 19th Century Other Antique Brazilian Console Tables
Other
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Console Tables
Wood, Plywood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Console Tables
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Imbuia
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Console Tables
Chrome
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Wood, Walnut
19th Century Mid-Century Modern Antique Brazilian Console Tables
Rosewood
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Wood, Teak
2010s Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Hardwood
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Console Tables
Wood, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Steel
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Console Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Wood
20th Century Brazilian Console Tables
Reclaimed Wood
2010s Brazilian Console Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Metal
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Console Tables
Stainless Steel
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Console Tables
Metal
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Marble
2010s Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Lacquer
18th Century Antique Brazilian Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Console Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Wood
2010s Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Lacquer
Late 17th Century Rustic Antique Brazilian Console Tables
Hardwood
2010s Other Brazilian Console Tables
Iron
2010s Modern Brazilian Console Tables
Wood
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Console Tables
Brass