Brazilian Side 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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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Aluminum
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Formica, Wood
20th Century French Provincial Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
20th Century French Provincial Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Brass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Fruitwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Hardwood
1960s Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Steel
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Granite
Mid-19th Century Mid-Century Modern Antique Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Steel, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble, Metal
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Hardwood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s International Style Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1960s International Style Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Travertine
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood, Smoked Glass
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Travertine, Steel
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Jacaranda
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Plywood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Plywood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Iron
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Hardwood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood, Cane
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood, Leather
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Leather, Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood, Straw
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