Brazilian Dining Room 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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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Hardwood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Wood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
1950s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Jacaranda
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Marble, Brass
1950s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Glass, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Metal
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Imbuia, Glass
1930s Art Deco Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Leather, Wood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Glass, Wood
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Glass, Hardwood
2010s Art Deco Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Metal
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Plywood, Hardwood
2010s Modern Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Sandstone
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Glass
1960s Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
1970s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Rosewood, Jacaranda
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
Jacaranda, Rosewood
1970s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
1940s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Dining Room Tables
1960s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
1950s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Dining Room Tables
1950s Vintage Brazilian Dining Room Tables
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