NAMELESS BEAUTY | Designer Damon Liss loves the unarib ! "#$% '()*+,+)- .+%/$-#"(0 /1)+( 23)/+-4 35(6)(%7 +- #1+8 9$6 :5(; )<)(#.$-# )8 ."/1 )8 #1$ =+-) '5 ')(%+ )(./1)+( 235($4(5"-%7> not least because the ‘nameless’ piece cost a f racon of the idened piece. !"#$#% $'()#' $#*+'# ?$$- $-5"41 53 @).$8 )-% ?))(+-$- )-% A),#5B C1$ 3"(-+#"($ 5"# 53 '()*+, +- #1$ 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s has similar sensibilies but with a sensuous twist Brazilian Midcentury Modern Furniture: A Sexier Take on Eames D@A= @?CAC@ E F@?GH9 QUESTION:What looks like midcentury moder n furniture (organic, informal) and feels like midcentury modern furniture (body-conscious, comfortably un- adorned), but isn’t designed by a person named Nelson, Aalto or Knoll? The answer is 20th-century Brazilian design, which appeals to people who love everything about midcentury modern except its yawning familiarity. Uniting the aes- thetics of European émigrés with indigenous Brazilian materials and crafts, the work is notable for its low pro- les, strong lines and richly colored and grained tropical woods. The nativ e species have names like incant ations: jacaranda (Brazilian ros ewood), imbuia (similar to wal- nut), roxinho (also known as purpleheart) and cabreuva (resembles mahogany). Combined with leather and woven bers, these woods allu de to the country’s rain forests, gauchos and shermen’s nets. That some of the woods are endangered and no longer used gives distinction to vintage Brazilian design, as does the relative renown of some of its makers. Joaquim Ten- reiro, Sergio Rodrigues, Lina Bo Bardi and José Zanine Caldas lead the pack, yet none is a household name on the order of Charles or Ray Eames. This may change as Americans gain greater access to Brazilian midcentury designs and acquire more informa- tion. Still, this rich period feels like a frontier. New York designer/architect Mark Zesources vin - tage Brazilian modern from around the world and says he loves the hunt. “The work is stunning and it’s hard to nd. That’s what I like about it,” Mr. Zesaid. Among his favorite pieces are curvaceous 1950s armchairs by Italian-born Brazilian designer Giuseppe Scapinelli (1891-1982). Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, currently working on an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, once listed Mr. Rodrigues’s Diz armchair—a squat, undulating piece that looks like something the Eameses might have done had they spent more time in Rio—among her favorite things. Stoking interest in these designers is “Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Cent ury Brazilian Fur- niture,” by Aric Chen. Due from Monacelli Press next month, the book is co-published by R & Company, a '0 IJ=G@ =A?K: February 18, 2016
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7/26/2019 Brazilian Midcentury Modern Furniture: a Sexier Take on Eames