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Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) believed in the industry as a vehicle for democratizing modern ideas and promoting the social and cultural potentials of architecture and design. Effortlessly combining industrialized production with sensible solutions, Bo Bardi's furniture, like her general practice, was playful and accessible yet deeply rooted in the history of modernism and design. That way, she brought Brazilian culture, territory, and history into her creations.

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Celebrating the Jorge Zalszupins memorable production, in December 2022, we presented a Viewing Room with a selection of essential works developed over years of research and technical experimentation.

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Inspired by Desvio para o Vermelho [Red Shift], a masterpiece by the Brazilian contemporary artist Cildo Meireles, we selected some of the red tones in our collection to construct a room and capture the spectator's view.

Last week Sítio Roberto Burle Marx was selected as world heritage under the cultural landscape category by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science, and Culture (Unesco). It is the 23rd Brazilian location on the world heritage list.

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Willy Guhl (1915–2004) is the Pioneer of Industrial Design Switzerland. He founded the first Swiss course of studies in product design at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich (today ZHdK). He taught for thirty years while also designing products for the industry on a regular basis.

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Geraldo de Barros (Chavantes, 1923 — São Paulo, 1998) was a Brazilian artist and designer who worked with painting, photography, engraving, graphic arts, and industrial design.

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Legally, the company Forma S.A. Móveis e Objetos de Arte (Forma S.A. Furniture and Art Objects) was registered on 24 January 1956, but its activities had begun since 24 June 1955.

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Martin Eisler was born in Vienna, in 1913, and graduated in architecture in 1936, where he had contact with Bauhaus professors.

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Carlo Hauner was born in Brescia, Itália, in 1927. He graduated in technical and artistic design at the Academy of Brera, Milan. In 1948, in his early twenties, he participated at the Biennale di Venezia (International Architecture Festival), and migrated to Brazil.

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"Hands of Restoration" is a three-chapter series, intends to present the artisans responsible for the multiple processes involved in the restoration of modern furniture. The third Chapter presents Amauri, responsible for bringing back the beauty of Brazilian woods; found on most pieces of 1950 and 1960 design production.

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The company Móveis Artesanal was a pioneer in the country in allying with success to a design office with a modern language, and with a serial system of fabrication in innovative commercial spaces. Founded by Carlo Hauner in 1950, who later partnered with Martin Eisler and Ernesto Wolf, Artesanal sold furniture designed by the first two, as well as some pieces created by Ernesto Hauner in other shops.

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"Hands of Restoration" is a three-chapter series, intends to present the artisans responsible for the multiple processes involved in the restoration of modern furniture.

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Sergio Rodrigues (1927-2014), designer and architect from Rio de Janeiro, opened Oca, both a gallery and a store, in 1955, at the heart of Ipanema. Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s was already a great metropolis, the brain and the heart of Brazil. Few things are as Brazilian as the oca, from the Tupi word ‘oká,’ and the Guarani word ‘Oca,’ which is an indigenous house made entirely of natural materials.

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