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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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Fruitwood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass
1970s International Style Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass, Rosewood
1970s Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome, Copper
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Limestone
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Side Tables
Marble
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Brass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Rosewood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Ceramic, Oak
1970s Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Brass
20th Century Brazilian Side Tables
Mahogany
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome
1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal, Brass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Aluminum
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Smoked Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal, Steel
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Rosewood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Metal
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Copper
1970s Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Jacaranda, Rosewood, Teak
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Chrome, Metal
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
Glass, Rosewood
1970s Vintage Brazilian Side Tables
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