Work by Lina Bo Bardi and José Zanine Caldas was on view at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City as part of an exhibition on modernist Brazilian furniture.
Called Turning Tides: Designing a Modern Brazil exhibition, the show highlighted 75 years of design from the South American country.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery showcased modernist Brazilian furniture in its New York location
It was launched to survey the impact of influential objects and furniture on daily life in the country and elsewhere, according to Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
The exhibit included works by post-war designers from Brazil such as Joaquim Tenreiro, Jorge Zalszupin and Sergio Rodrigues but also contemporary talents, such as Studio Campana, who have been influenced by these historical figures' experimental use of colour, texture, material, form and traditional crafts. The exhibition included the wooden furniture of José Zanine Caldas
"Turning Tides honours a diverse cadre of artists who navigated and shaped their creations in the crucible of Brazil's culturally rich history, reflecting significant social, cultural, and political changes that influenced various aspects of society," said Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
Produced using a single Pequi tree trunk, sourced in the Região Centro-Oeste region, the Dining Table by Caldas demonstrates these designers' interpretation of modernism and contribution to the development of a distinctive Latin American style.
Post-war designers such as L...