Móvel brasileiro moderno : Brazilian modern design / Alberto Vicente, Marcelo Vasconcellos, [org.] ; [text by] Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Tatiana Sakurai ; traduzido por Priscila Adachi.

São Paolo : Olhares, 2017.

©2017

481 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Text in Portuguese and English.

The book documents the work of 15 of the leading Brazilian furniture designers in the modern period, between the 1940s and 1970s, including Lina Bo Bardi, Joaquim Tenreiro, José Zanine Caldas, Sergio Rodrigues and Jorge Zalszupin.0The extensive selection of reproduction allows the reader to appreciate the details of the designers' creative thinking and the variety of aesthetic solutions. The accompanying text, by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo, examines the elements that brought about the genesis of modern Brazilian design, weaving an analysis that guides the reader to present dialogues between the arts.0The book also includes a short biography of each of the designers, plus a chapter on the contributions made by architects to modern furniture design.

Brazilian modern design

English; Portuguese

November 28, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (page 46-47).