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Flavio De Carvalho "FDC-1" Armchair, 1950
$20,600
£15,701.68
€18,110.24
CA$29,258.16
A$31,440.97
CHF 16,869.90
MX$370,355.41
NOK 212,120.34
SEK 193,770.56
DKK 135,348.80
About the Item
Flavio De Carvalho 'FDC-1' Armchair, leather and metal, Brazil, 1950
The FDC-1 reads like a drawing you can sit in: a continuous steel line, bent into an oval halo, then held in place by a few perfectly judged angles. Everything is reduced to structure—four slim legs, a triangulated brace, and that circular back ring that gives the chair its unmistakable silhouette.
Instead of upholstery in the conventional sense, comfort is engineered through tension. A wide leather sling becomes the seat, while stitched leather straps cross the back like a harness—graphic, functional, and quietly sensual in the way only leather can be.
Designed in 1950, the chair sits at a fascinating crossroads—Brazilian modernism with an experimental, almost performative edge. It echoes the directness found in Lina Bo Bardi’s furniture, while the disciplined use of tubular steel nods to the European lineage of Breuer and the utilitarian clarity that would later define much of mid-century metalwork.
Flavio de Carvalho was a Brazilian architect and artist whose practice moved fluidly between architecture, performance, and design—an outsider-modernist figure drawn to provocation, precision, and the psychology of form. In the FDC-1, that mindset becomes furniture: minimal, intelligent, and slightly radical—still startlingly current today.
- Creator:Flavio de Carvalho (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 32.09 in (81.5 cm)Width: 31.7 in (80.5 cm)Depth: 27.56 in (70 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1950
- Condition:We accurately check the quality of every object. Our in-house expert craftsmen carefully reviewed the item. Contact us for additional information.
- Seller Location:Lonigo, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3756348157722
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