Fakasaka Design
2010s Brazilian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Candlesticks
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Candlesticks
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Benches
Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Bookends
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Bookends
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Onyx, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
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A Close Look at Modern Furniture
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
On the Origins of Brazil
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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