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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2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
20th Century French Provincial Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
2010s Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Side Tables
Soapstone
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Hardwood
2010s Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Granite
2010s Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Iron
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s Organic Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Side Tables
Stone
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood, Straw
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Leather, Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Concrete, Aluminum
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Plywood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Granite
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Granite
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Straw, Hardwood
2010s Minimalist Brazilian Side Tables
Steel
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Side Tables
Resin
20th Century French Provincial Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s Brazilian Side Tables
Resin
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Granite
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Suede, Wood
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Steel
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
2010s International Style Brazilian Side Tables
Steel
2010s Post-Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Glass
2010s Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Suede, Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Side Tables
Glass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood, Rosewood
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